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ACT NO. 5 0F 2012
Data Protection Act, 20L1
provide for principles for
An Act to establish the Data Protection commission,
in order to protect and reconregulation of processing of personal information
personal information privacy under
cile the fundamentaf uri.o*ptting values of
other related mattels'
this Act and sector-specific legislation and
Enacted by the Parliament of Lesotho'
PARI I _ PRELIMINARY
Citation and commencernent
1'ThisActmaybecitedastheDataProtectionAct,ZOll,andshallcome
Gazette'
into operation on the date of publication in the
Interpretation
2.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires
..agent,,inrelationtopersonaldata,meansapelson(otherthananem-
ployeeofthedatacontroller)whoplocessesthedataonbehalfofthe
data controller;
..automaticcallingmachine,,meansamachinethatisabletodoautomated cal1s without human intervention;
based
chnique of personal identification that is
retianalysis'
tics including fingerprinting' DNA
recognition;
"child" means
a natural person under the age
of
1B
yeus;
..Codeofconduct,,meansacodeofcondrrctmadeandappr.ovedinterms
of this Act;
..Commission,,meanstheDataProtectionCommissionestablished