The Data Protection Bill, 2012 THE DATA PROTECTION BILL, 2012 A Bill for AN ACT of Parliament to give effect to Article 31(c) and (d) of the Constitution; to regulate the collection, retrieval, processing, storing, use and disclosure of personal data and for connected purposes PART I—PRELIMINARY Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Data Protection Act, 2012. Interpretation. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— “agency” includes public entities and private bodies; "Cabinet Secretary" means the Cabinet Secretary responsible for information and communications; “Commission” means the Commission on Administrative Justice established by section 3 of the Commission on Administrative Justice Act, 2011; "Court" means the High Court or any other court with jurisdiction under any law to adjudicate over matters relating to data protection; "data" means information which— (a) is being processed by means of equipment operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose; (b) is recorded with the intention that it should be processed by means of such equipment; (c) is recorded as part of a relevant filing system or with the intention that it should form part of a relevant filing system; (d) where it does not fall under paragraph (a), (b) or (c), forms part of an accessible record; (e) is recorded information held by public entity and does not 3