Part 5: Digital Government Chapter 5: Sharing for research purposes Section 70: Code of practice
This section provides that a code of practice must be issued by the Statistics Board (the name used in legislation when describing the United Kingdom Statistics Authority) about the disclosure and processing of personal information under section 64 and about the holding or use of personal information disclosed under section 64. The Statistics Board must prepare, consult on, and issue the code of practice and may from time to time revise and re-issue it. The code of practice must be consistent with the code of practice issued by the Information Commissioner under section 52B of the Data Protection Act 1998. Subsection (9) requires that the first version of the code be approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament. Subsections (10) and (12) set out the procedure to be followed before the Statistics Board may reissue the code. Subsection (14) provides that as soon as reasonably practicable after issuing or reissuing the code, the Statistics Board must lay a copy before the devolved legislatures.
	Subsections (3) and (15) provide that all persons disclosing or using information under section 64 must have regard to the code of practice and to applicable codes of practice that the Information Commissioner has issued under section 51(3) of the Data Protection Act 1998 on the identification and reduction of risks to privacy and on information to be provided to data subjects on the use of information collected from them, in so far as the codes apply. This would include the current codes which relate to privacy impact assessments and privacy notices.