Part 3: National Underground Asset Register Section 58: National Underground Asset Register: Northern Ireland Article 45I: Data Protection
New Article 45I in SWNIO 1995 is, for Northern Ireland, the equivalent of section 106I in NRSWA 1991 for England and Wales (see paragraph 485 above).
	It is not anticipated that information processed for the purposes of NUAR will typically include personal data. However, should any processing of personal data take place as a result of the provision made by (or in regulations under) a NUAR provision, section 45I makes clear that this processing will have to be undertaken in accordance with the existing data protection legislation. In this context, "processing", "personal data" and "the data protection legislation" have the same meaning as in the DPA 2018.
	Subsection (4) of section 58 makes a number of amendments to Article 59 of SWNIO 1995, setting out a number of procedural requirements that will apply in relation to regulations made under a NUAR provision. New Article 59(A1) imposes on obligation on the Secretary of State to obtain the consent of the Department of Infrastructure in Northern Ireland before making regulations under SWNIO 1995. Other new paragraphs inserted into Article 59 – among other things – set out the relevant Parliamentary procedures which apply to such regulations when made by the Secretary of State.