226. Section 15 of the Freedom of Information Act 2014 is amended—

(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3):

(3) A record shall not be within subsection (2) by reason only of the fact that it contains information constituting—

(a) personal data within the meaning of the Data Protection Act 1988 to which that Act applies,

(b) personal data within the meaning of the Data Protection Regulation to which that Regulation and the Act of 2018 apply, or

(c) personal data within the meaning of Part 5 of the Act of 2018 to which that Act applies.

and

(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (4):

“(5) In this section—

‘Act of 2018’ means the Data Protection Act 2018;

‘Data Protection Regulation’ means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016⁴⁹ 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).”.