Data Protection Act 1998

10U.K.Personal data are exempt from the subject information provisions if the data consist of information in respect of which a claim to legal professional privilege [F1or, in Scotland, to confidentiality of communications] could be maintained in legal proceedings.

Textual Amendments

F1Words in Sch. 7 para. 10 substituted (14.5.2001) by 2000 c. 36, s. 73, Sch. 6 para. 7 (with ss. 56, 78); S.I. 2001/1637, art. 2(d)