217. The Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act 2011 is amended—

(a) in section 65A(1), by—

(i) the deletion of the definition of “Act of 1988”,

(ii) the insertion of the following definition:

“ ‘Data Protection Regulation’ means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016⁴² 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);”,

(iii) the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “personal data”:

“ ‘personal data’ means personal data within the meaning of the Data Protection Regulation;”,

and

(iv) the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “processing”:

“ ‘processing’ means processing within the meaning of the Data Protection Regulation;”,

(b) in section 66A(2), by the deletion of paragraph (a), and

(c) in section 66C—

(i) in subsection (1), by the substitution of “the Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018” for “the Data Protection Acts 1988 to 2003”, and

(ii) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (2):

“(2) Article 21 (Right to object) of the Data Protection Regulation shall not apply to processing of personal data that is required for the purposes of carrying out legitimate postcode activity.”.