Data Protection and Digital Information Bill – in the House of Commons am 4:15 pm ar 29 Tachwedd 2023.
Relevant benefits
16 In this Schedule “relevant benefit” means any of the following—
(a) a relevant social security benefit as defined in section 121DA(7);
(b) a child tax credit or working tax credit under the Tax Credits Act 2002;
(c) a payment, as mentioned in subsection (2)(d) of section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973, under arrangements made under that section.
Accounts
17 In this Schedule any reference to a person who holds an account includes a reference to—
(a) a person who holds an account jointly with one or more other persons, and
(b) a person who is a signatory, or one of the signatories, to an account,
and “holder” is to be construed accordingly.
General interpretation
18 In this Schedule—
“account” includes a financial product;
“account information notice” has the meaning given in paragraph 2;
“benefit” includes any allowance, payment, credit or loan;
“cryptoasset” means a cryptographically secured digital representation of value or contractual rights that—
(a) can be transferred, stored or traded electronically, and
(b) uses technology supporting the recording or storage of data (which may include distributed ledger technology);
“the data protection legislation” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3(9) of that Act);
“document” means anything in which information (in whatever form) is recorded;
“financial product” includes a cryptoasset;
“notice” means notice in writing, and “notify” is to be read accordingly;
“penalty notice” is defined in paragraph 9(4);
“personal data” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3(2) of that Act);
“processing” has the same meaning as in that Act (see section 3(4) of that Act);
“the Tribunal” means the First-tier Tribunal.
Relationship with other powers
19 Nothing in this Schedule limits the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 109B (power to require information).”