Commentary on Sections Part 2 –Standards Chapter 9 - Complaints Section 119: Complaints: data protection
270.Section 119 makes the CHAI, the CSCI and other persons charged under the regulations with consideration of complaints, exempt from the subject information provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 to the extent to which application of those provisions would be likely to prejudice the proper discharge of the function of considering the complaint. The subject information provisions of the Data Protection Act allow for individuals except in certain defined circumstances to seek and obtain information which is held on them by others. Section 31 of the Data Protection Act provides an exemption from these provisions by reference to a number of different categories of regulatory function exercised by public bodies.