Part 5: Data Protection and Privacy Enforcement Section 97: Power of the Commissioner to require documents
Section 97 amends section 142 (information notices) of the DPA 2018 to clarify that the Commissioner can require specific documents as well as information when using the information notice power. This is a clarification of the Commissioner’s powers.
	Subsections (3) to (7) make consequential amendments to references to information notices in section 143 (information notices: restrictions), section 145 (information orders), section 148 (destroying or falsifying information and documents), section 160 (guidance about regulatory action) and Schedule 17 (review of processing of personal data for the purposes of journalism). These amendments are needed as a result of the clarification to the information notice powers in section 142 and make clear that the relevant provision applies where documents are required under the information notice powers in the same way as for other information.