171. Section 15A of the Control of Clinical Trials Act 1987 is amended—

(a) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (d):

“(d) inspect and copy or extract information from any data including data that constitutes personal data within the meaning of—

(i) the Data Protection Regulation, or

(ii) Part 5 of the Data Protection Act 2018.”,

and

(b) the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (10):

“(11) In this section, ‘Data Protection Regulation’ means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016¹⁴ on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).”.