Data Protection Act
ZambiaAct of Parliament
The Data Protection Act is an Act of the Parliament of Zambia. It contains 93 sections. Read its sections below, or ask Levy any question about the Data Protection Act and get an answer grounded in the Act with citations.
Sections of the Data Protection Act
- S. 1Short title and commencement
- S. 2Interpretati on
- S. 3Applicati on
- S. 4Establishment of Office of Data Protecti on Commissioner
- S. 5Dataprotecti on Commissioner
- S. 6Appointment of Deputy Data Protecti on Commissioners and other staff
- S. 7Inspect or
- S. 8Power of inspectors
- S. 9Arrest without warrant
- S. 10Seizureofproperty
- S. 11Restoration of property
- S. 12Principles relating to processing of personal data
- S. 13Processing of personal data
- S. 14Processing of sensitive personal data
- S. 15Consent,justificationandobjecti on
- S. 16Collection of personal data
- S. 17(1) Where a data subject is a child or a vulnerable per s on, Processing of
- S. 18Offence and penalty for contravention of personal data ob liga ti on
- S. 19Prohibiti on from controlling or processing personal data without
- S. 20Application for registration as data processor or data controller
- S. 21Registration of data controller and data process or
- S. 22Renewal of certificate of regi strat i on
- S. 23A registered data controller or data process or under th is Change in
- S. 24Suspension and cancellation of regi strat i on
- S. 25Re-registrati on
- S. 26Surrender of certificate of regi strat i on
- S. 27Exemption from regi strat i on
- S. 28Power to forbear
- S. 29Data auditors
- S. 30Application for licence
- S. 31Issue of licences
- S. 32Conditions of licence
- S. 33Variationoflicence
- S. 34Surrenderoflicence
- S. 35Transferoflicence
- S. 36(1) Subject to the other provisions of this Act,the Data Suspensi on
- S. 37Renewaloflicence
- S. 38Functions of a data audit or
- S. 39Nationalsecurity,defenceandpublicorder
- S. 40Preventi on,detectioninvestigationandprosecutionofcontraventions of
- S. 41Processing for purpose of legal proceedings
- S. 42Research,archivingorstatisticalpurpose
- S. 43Journalistic purpose
- S. 44Processing to be lawful and legitimate
- S. 45Record of processing activities
- S. 46Data protection impact assessment
- S. 47Security of processing
- S. 48Appointment of data protection officer
- S. 49Notification of security br each
- S. 50Accountability
- S. 51Data retenti on
- S. 52Duties of data process or
- S. 53Non-disclosureofpersonaldata
- S. 54Jointcontrollers
- S. 55Offence by data controller
- S. 56Personal data in legal proceedings
- S. 57Notificati on
- S. 58Right of access and not if i cat i on
- S. 59Righttorectificati on
- S. 60Righttoerasure
- S. 61Rightofobjecti on
- S. 62Decision taken on basis of automatic data processing
- S. 63(1) A data subject may restrict a data controller from Right to
- S. 64Information when personal data collected directly from data subject
- S. 65Right to data portability
- S. 66Notification ob liga ti on
- S. 67Derogation from rights
- S. 68Complaints
- S. 69Appeals
- S. 70Crossborder transfer of personal data
- S. 71Conditions for cross border transfer of personal data
- S. 72Righttocompensati on
- S. 73Offences
- S. 74Power of Data Protecti on Commissioner to compound certa in
- S. 75Forfeiture
- S. 76Offence byprincipal officer, shareholder or partner of body corporate
- S. 77Generalpenalty
- S. 78Codeofconduct
- S. 79Guidelines
- S. 80Register
- S. 81Auditing of data controller
- S. 82Regulations
- S. ISection I
- S. IISection II
- S. IIISection III
- S. IVSection IV
- S. IXSection IX
- S. VSection V
- S. VISection VI
- S. VIISection VII
- S. VIIISection VIII
- S. XSection X
- S. XISection XI