Part 6: Enforcement Section 156: Penalty notices: restrictions
This section sets out the restrictions placed on the Commissioner in relation to the Commissioner’s power to issue a penalty notice under section 155(1) in relation to different types of processing.
	Subsections (1) and (2) replicate section 46 of the 1998 Act. Subsection (1) sets out the circumstances in which the Commissioner may give a penalty notice to a controller or processor with respect to the processing of personal data for the special purposes. Subsection (2) sets out the circumstances in which a court may grant leave for the notice to be given.
	Subsection (3) prohibits the Commissioner from giving a penalty notice to a controller or processor with respect to the processing of personal data where the purposes and manner of the processing are determined by or on behalf of either House of Parliament.
	Subsection (4) prohibits the Commissioner from issuing a penalty notice to the Crown Estate Commissioners or a person who is a controller by virtue of section 209(4).