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Legislation
Data Protection Act 2018

Crossheading Automated individual decision-making

  • Section 49 Right not to be subject to automated decision-making
  • Section 50 Automated decision-making authorised by law: safeguards
  • Section 50A Automated processing and significant decisions
  • Section 50B Restrictions on automated decision-making based on sensitive processing
  • Section 50C Safeguards for automated decision-making
  • Section 50D Further provision about automated decision-making
  1. Automated individual decision-making
  2. Automated processing and significant decisions

Section 50A | Automated processing and significant decisions F1

From legislation.gov.uk

(1)For the purposes of sections and —

(a)a decision is based solely on automated processing if there is no meaningful human involvement in the taking of the decision, and

(b)a decision is a significant decision, in relation to a data subject, if—

(i)it produces an adverse legal effect for the data subject, or

(ii)it has a similarly significant adverse effect for the data subject.

(2)When considering whether there is meaningful human involvement in the taking of a decision, a person must consider, among other things, the extent to which the decision is reached by means of profiling.

Notes

  1. F1

    Ss. 50A-50D substituted for ss. , (19.6.2025 for specified purposes, 5.2.2026 in so far as not already in force) by , ss. , 142(1)(2)(h); S.I. 2026/82, reg. 2(j) (with reg. 5)

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