Part 6: Enforcement Section 179: Effectiveness of the media’s dispute resolution procedures
This section requires the Secretary of State, every three years, to report on the use and effectiveness of alternative dispute resolution procedures designed to resolve complaints against media organisations in related to alleged breaches of data protection legislation.
	Subsection (1) permits the Secretary of State to delegate the production of the report to an appropriate person.
	Subsection (2) limits the scope of the report to alternative dispute resolution procedures provided by persons who produce codes of practice for relevant media organisations. Those codes will include, but is not limited to, the list of codes found in paragraph 26 of Schedule 2. Codes of practice directed at broadcasters are excluded from the scope of the report.