Part 2: General processing Chapter 2: The GDPR Section 20: Meaning of "court"
References to "court" in the GDPR are likely to include "tribunal" (as defined in the Act in section 205). For consistency across the Act, and to minimise uncertainty, Chapter 2 of Part 2 uses the construction "court or tribunal" where applicable, with the effect that "court" in Chapter 2 of Part 2 has a narrower meaning than "court" in the GDPR, as it does not include "tribunal". Section 20 therefore disapplies, for the term "court", the general provision in section 5(1) that terms in the GDPR and Chapter 2 of Part 2 have the same meaning as each other.