Part 2: General processing Chapter 2: The GDPR Section 11: Special categories of personal data etc: supplementary
This section makes supplementary provision relating to the processing of special categories of data and personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences or related security measures.
	Article 9(2)(h) provides a Member State derogation for the processing of special categories of data for specified health and social care purposes. Any processing under Article 9(2)(h) on the basis of Member State law must be subject to the conditions and safeguards in Article 9(3) of the GDPR (obligations of professional secrecy etc.). Section 11(1) provides that for the purposes of Article 9(2)(h), the conditions and safeguards referred to in Article 9(3) include circumstances in which processing is carried out by, or under the responsibility of, a health or a social work professional or by another person who in the circumstances owes a duty of confidentiality under an enactment or rule of law. "Health professional" and "social work professional" are defined for the purposes of this Act in section 204.
	Subsection (2) contains a non-exhaustive definition of personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences or related security measures.