Part 8: General and Financial Provisions Section 49: Data protection
This section seeks to preserve the status of existing data protection legislation including the General Data Protection Regulation. This is to ensure that no power or duty conferred under this Act will erode existing data protection legislation.
	Subsection (1) sets out that this section applies to duties or powers to disclose or use information, imposed or conferred by Parts 1 to 6 of this Act.
	Subsection (2) specifies that any duty or power in the Act that would disclose or use information must not contravene the data protection legislation.
	Subsection (3) defines data protection legislation.