Part 6: Enforcement Section 176: Staying special purposes proceedings
This section requires a court to stay, or in Scotland, sist, special purposes proceedings if the controller or processor claim, or it appears to the court, that personal data to which the proceedings relate: is being processed only for special purposes; is being processed with a view to publication by persons of journalistic, academic, artistic, or literary material; and has not been published before by the controller (with publication of the same material 24 hours prior to the relevant time to be ignored). The section also sets out the conditions under which the stay can be lifted.