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ARTICLE · 18 DECEMBER 2019

Updates To Maltese Data Protection Law

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Legal Notice 263 of 2019 was published in October 2019 and enacts Subsidiary Legislation 528.10, Processing Personal Data (Secondary Processing) (Health Sector).

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The last quarter of 2019 brought a number of changes to our data protection legislation.

Secondary Processing of Personal Data in the Health Sector

Legal Notice 263 of 2019 was published in October 2019 and enacts Subsidiary Legislation 528.10, Processing Personal Data (Secondary Processing) (Health Sector).

These Regulations regulate the further processing of personal data in the health sector (also referred to as secondary processing) which processing is not linked to the primary purposes for which the data was originally collected.

Under these Regulations, which Regulations are to be read in conformity with the GDPR, secondary processing of personal data in the health sector shall be permitted where:

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