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Data Protection Regulations 2021

A reference record of Data Protection Regulations 2021, drawn from the instrument's own official text. It sets out how the law is organised — its Parts, its section count and its length — and links to the text itself. It does not interpret the law or offer advice on it.

Where this instrument arises in our work: Data Protection

At a glance

CitationData Protection Regulations 2021
Instrument typeADGM Regulations
Enacted2021
JurisdictionAbu Dhabi Global Market
Parts0
Numbered sections62
Chapters0

How Data Protection Regulations 2021 is organised

The 0 Parts below are the instrument's own divisions, in the order the official text sets them out.

PartHeading

What Data Protection Regulations 2021 covers, section by section

The 62 section headings below are the instrument's own, reproduced in its order. They are a map of the law, not a summary of it — for the wording of any article, read the official text.

  1. Subject-matter and objectives
  2. Material scope
  3. Territorial scope
  4. Principles relating to Processing of Personal Data
  5. Lawfulness of Processing
  6. Conditions for Consent
  7. Processing of Special Categories of Personal Data
  8. Processing which does not require identification
  9. Processing for Archiving and Research Purposes
  10. Information to be provided where Personal Data is collected from the Data Subject
  11. Information to be provided where Personal Data has not been obtained from the Data Subject
  12. Right of access by the Data Subject
  13. Right to rectification
  14. Right to erasure
  15. Right to restriction of Processing
  16. Right to data portability
  17. Right to object
  18. Automated individual decision-making, including Profiling
  19. Restrictions
  20. Responsibility of the Controller
  21. Data protection by design and by default
  22. Data Protection Fee
  23. Joint Controllers
  24. Processor
  25. Processing under the authority of the Controller or Processor
  26. Records of Processing activities
  27. Cooperation with the Commissioner of Data Protection
  28. Security of Processing
  29. Cessation of Processing
  30. Notification of a Personal Data Breach to the Commissioner of Data Protection
  31. Communication of a Personal Data Breach to the Data Subject
  32. Data Protection Impact Assessment
  33. Designation of the Data Protection Officer
  34. Position of the Data Protection Officer
  35. Tasks of the Data Protection Officer
  36. Codes of conduct
  37. Certification
  38. General principle for transfers
  39. Transfers on the basis of an adequacy decision
  40. Transfers subject to appropriate safeguards
  41. Binding Corporate Rules
  42. Derogations for specific situations
  43. Data sharing with public authorities
  44. International cooperation for the protection of Personal Data
  45. Commissioner of Data Protection
  46. Independence
  47. Functions and obligations of Staff of the Office of Data Protection
  48. General Powers
  49. Budget
  50. Accounts and audit
  51. Annual report
  52. Directions
  53. General conditions for imposing administrative fines
  54. Fixed penalty for non-payment of the Data Protection Fee or Renewal Fee
  55. Right to lodge a complaint with the Commissioner of Data Protection
  56. Application to the Court
  57. Rights against a Controller and/or Processor
  58. Power of the Board to make rules
  59. Previously concluded agreements
  60. Definitions
  61. Repeal of Data Protection Regulations 2015
  62. Short title, scope and commencement

Primary sources

Everything on this page comes from these two. Links go to the issuing legislator.

  • Data Protection Regulations 2021 — official text (HTML) ADGM
  • ADGM Legislation Rulebook — the register this instrument is listed in ADGM

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