Part 5: Terrorism Legal aid Section 91: Legal aid for individuals convicted of terrorism offences: data sharing
This section amends the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) by inserting a new section 9B to allow information to be shared and processed in order to enforce the restriction on civil legal aid as inserted by new section 9A.
	New section 9B confirms that information on an individual’s criminal conviction(s) can be requested by the Director of Legal Aid Casework from a competent authority who holds that criminal conviction data, and that the competent authority can release that data to the Director of Legal Aid Casework.
	The data on criminal convictions can only be used for the purpose of identifying whether an applicant for legal aid has been convicted of a terrorism offence, so as to ascertain whether the restriction on civil legal aid applies.
	New section 9B sets out what type of information may be requested, including an individual’s name, date of birth and the dates of any convictions.
	New section 9B also defines relevant terminology within this section with reference to the Data Protection Act 2018.