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Deciding whether to appeal
If you receive a notice from the Information Commissioner with which you disagree, you can appeal to this Tribunal.
The Information Commissioner issues four types of notices:
- decision notices, (see example)
(16kb) - information notices,
- special notices, and
- enforcement notices.
Notices are issued under the following laws:
- Freedom of Information Act 2000
- Data Protection Act 1998
- Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulation 2003, or
- Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
The details of these provisions are available on the Information Commissioner´s website as well as on the Rules & Legislation of this website.
If the Minister of the Crown has issued a certificate in relation to national security, the matter may be dealt with by the National Security Appeals Panel, which is a special panel of the Information Tribunal.
Glossary of terms used on this page
Enforcement notice
The Information Commissioner has the power to serve an enforcement notice if he is satisfied that a data controller has contravened or is contravening the data protection principles. The notice must set out the steps that the data controller must take to comply with the relevant requirements of the Act. The notice may be appealed to the Information Tribunal which may confirm, amend or overturn it. However, in the absence of an appeal, if the data controller fails to comply with a notice, a criminal offence is committed.
Information notice
An information notice is a written notice from the Information Commissioner to a data controller or a public authority seeking information that the Commissioner needs to carry out his functions. Failure to comply with an information notice is an offence.
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