16. (1) HRI may provide data (including personal data) held by HRI for the purposes of section 10(1) (b) or (2) (a), (b), (c), (i), (k) or (l) of the Act of 1994 to the Racing Regulatory Body to the extent that it is necessary for the Racing Regulatory Body in order to carry out its functions under section 39 of the Act of 1994.

(2) The Racing Regulatory Body shall process all data received from HRI as though it were received directly by the Body itself.

(3) HRI shall before it provides data to the Racing Regulatory Body under subsection (1), inform by notice in writing any person to whom the data relates of its intention and that the person may object to the proposal within 14 days of the notice.

(4) A person may, within the period of time specified in subsection (3), by notice in writing to HRI object to the transfer of personal data from HRI to the Racing Regulatory Body under subsection (1) and such data as is specified in the notice shall not be transferred.

(5) HRI shall not be liable for any errors or omissions in relation to data provided to the Racing Regulatory Body and shall notify the Racing Regulatory Body of any objections received under subsection (4).

(6) The Racing Regulatory Body may provide data (including personal data) held by the Racing Regulatory Body for the purposes of a provision referred to in subsection (1) to HRI to the extent that it is necessary for HRI in order to carry out its functions.

(7) HRI shall process all data received from the Racing Regulatory Body as though it were received directly by HRI itself.

(8) The Racing Regulatory Body shall before it provides data to HRI under subsection (6), inform by notice in writing any person to whom the data relates of its intention and that the person may object to the proposal within 14 days of the notice.

(9) A person may, within the period of time specified in subsection (8), by notice in writing to the Racing Regulatory Body object to the transfer of personal data from the Racing Regulatory Body to HRI under subsection (6) and such data as is specified in the notice shall not be transferred.

(10) The Racing Regulatory Body shall not be liable for any errors or omissions in relation to data provided to HRI and shall notify HRI of any objections received under subsection (9).

(11) The Racing Regulatory Body may transfer data (including personal data) held by it for purposes of enforcing the Rules of Racing, the Animal Remedies Act 1993 or the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to the Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine or the Revenue Commissioners for the purposes of enforcing the Rules of Racing or those Acts.

(12) Section 2D(2)(a) (inserted by section 4 of the Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2003) of the Data Protection Act 1988 applies to any information transferred under this section.

(13) HRI and the Racing Regulatory Body shall, before the commencement of subsections (1) and (6), notify any person likely to be affected by any transfer of personal data to which either subsection refers of its intention to transfer such data to the other body under this section on the commencement of the subsection concerned.

(14) Where a notice in writing under subsection (3) or (8) relates to a class of persons to whom the data concerned relates, the notice may be published on the website of HRI or the Racing Regulatory Body, as the case may be, or in a newspaper published and circulating in the State (including a newspaper devoted to horseracing).

(15) In this section “data” and “personal data” have the same meaning as they have, respectively, in section 1 (as amended by the Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2003) of the Data Protection Act 1988.