Part 6: Enforcement Section 174: The special purposes
This section defines "special purposes" as one or more of: the purposes of journalism, academic purposes, artistic purposes and literary purposes. The inclusion of academic purposes extends the existing special purposes definition under section 3 of the 1998 Act to include academic purposes in line with Article 85 of the GDPR. This section also defines "special purposes proceedings" as legal proceedings against a controller or processor relating (in whole or in part) to the processing of personal data processed for the special purposes.
	Under this section, the Commissioner may make a written determination in relation to the processing of personal data for the special purposes that the data: is not being processed only for the special purposes, or is not being processed with a view to the publication of new material in relation to the special purposes. The Commissioner must provide written notice of any determination made to the controller and processor concerned. The section also sets out the conditions that must be met before the Commissioner’s determination can take effect and requires the Commissioner to provide information about the relevant rights of appeal.