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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. Further provision about automated decision-making

Section 50D | Further provision about automated decision-making F1

From legislation.gov.uk

(1)The Secretary of State may by regulations provide that, for the purposes of sections and , there is, or is not, to be taken to be meaningful human involvement in the taking or reconsideration of a decision in cases described in the regulations.

(2)The Secretary of State may by regulations provide that, for the purposes of , a description of decision is, or is not, to be taken to have a similarly significant adverse effect for the data subject.

(3)Regulations under subsection (1) or (2) may amend .

(4)The Secretary of State may by regulations make the following types of provision about the safeguards required under —

(a)provision requiring the safeguards to include measures in addition to those described in ,

(b)provision imposing requirements which supplement what requires the safeguards to consist of or include (including, for example, provision about how and when things described in must be done or be capable of being done), and

(c)provision about measures which are not to be taken to satisfy one or more of paragraphs to of section 50C(2).

(5)Regulations under this section are subject to the affirmative resolution procedure.

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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