Part 7: Supplementary and final provision Section 194: Effect of the Framework
This section provides that persons undertaking relevant processing of personal data must have regard to the Framework but are not liable to legal proceedings solely because of a failure to act in accordance with it.
	Subsection (3) provides that the Framework is admissible in evidence in legal proceedings.
	Subsection (4) establishes that the Framework must, where relevant, be taken into account by a court or tribunal.
	Subsection (5) provides that the Commissioner must take the Framework into account if she considers it relevant to a question arising in connection with her functions. For example, if the Commissioner were to be investigating a data breach by a Government department she may consider it relevant to consider whether or not that department had applied the principles set out in the Framework. The Commissioner remains free to disregard the Framework wherever she considers it irrelevant.
	More generally, the Commissioner remains free to disagree with the Framework’s contents and to include whatever she sees fit in her own Code.