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(1) This Order may be cited as the Data Protection (Miscellaneous Subject Access Exemptions) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 11th November 1987.
(2) In this Order “the subject access provisions” has the meaning which it has for the purposes of Part IV of the Data Protection Act 1984.
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There shall be exempted from the subject access provisions any personal data consisting of information the disclosure of which is prohibited or restricted by the enactments and instruments listed in the Schedule to this Order, being enactments and instruments which impose prohibitions or restrictions on disclosure which ought to prevail over those provisions in the interests of data subjects or of other individuals.
Douglas Hurd
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State Home Office
9th November 1987
SCHEDULE
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PART I

 (a) Adoption records and reportsSections 50 and 51 of the Adoption Act 1976 (subject to the Note below).Regulations 6 and 14 of the Adoption Agencies Regulations 1983, so far as they relate to records and other information in the possession of local authorities.Rules 5, 6, 9, 17, 18, 21, 22 and 53 of the Adoption Rules 1984.Rules 5, 6, 9, 17, 18, 21, 22 and 32 of the Magistrates' Courts (Adoption) Rules 1984.Note Until the date of the coming into force of sections 50 and 51 of the Adoption Act 1976, the references above to those sections shall be construed as references, respectively, to sections 20 and 20A of the Adoption Act 1958.
 (b) Statement of child’s special educational needsRegulation 11 of the Education (Special Educational Needs) Regulations 1983.

PART II

 (a) Adoption records and reportsSection 45 of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978.Regulation 24 of the Adoption Agencies (Scotland) Regulations 1984, so far as it relates to records and other information in the possession of local authorities.Rule 230 of the Act of Sederunt (Rules of Court) (consolidation and amendment) 1965.Paragraphs 9, 24 and 28 of the Act of Sederunt (Adoption of Children) 1984.
 (b) Information provided by reporter for children’s hearingRule 6 of the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Rules 1986.
 (c) Record of child or young person’s special educational needsSection 60(4) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980.Proviso (bb) to Regulation 7(2) of the Education (Record of Needs) (Scotland) Regulations 1982.

PART III

 (a) Adoption records and reportsSection 23 of the Adoption Act (Northern Ireland) 1967.Any enactment contained in an Order in Council made under the Northern Ireland Act 1974 and making provision corresponding to section 51 of the Adoption Act 1976.Rule 35 of the Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) (No. 4) 1969.Rule 22 of the County Court (Adoption) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1980.
 (b) Statement of child’s special educational needsRegulation 11 of the Education (Special Educational Needs) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1985.
