Malta. Comprehensive data protection. Act
DPA Cap. 440Data Protection Act 2001 (Cap. 440, Act XXVI of 2001)
Repealed/superseded
Partly verified
Medium confidence.Dates are from search summaries of the Council of Europe profile, the EPIC/WorldLII report and the staged-commencement notes on the Cap. 440 text; the legislation.mt text itself was not fetched. The repeal date of 2018-05-28 follows the in-force date of the existing Cap. 586 row.
§1Summary
- Synopsis
Malta's first general data protection act. The first Data Protection Commissioner was appointed in March 2002, and the Act was brought fully into force on 15 July 2003 so that data subjects could exercise their rights. Act XX of 2018 (Cap. 586) repealed it.
- SaaS relevance
Historical only; replaced by the Data Protection Act Cap. 586 and the GDPR (mt-dpa-cap586).
§2Dates
- Key dates
- Adopted
- In force
- Ended
- Enacted 2001-12-14; brought into force in stages: Part VIII 2002-03-22, Arts 2 and 54 2002-11-15, Arts 3 to 28 2003-07-15 (fully in force 2003-07-15); repealed by Act XX of 2018 (the Data Protection Act, Cap. 586)
§3Text and authority
- Text
- No authoritative text located.
- Authority
- Information and Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC)
§4Where it applies
- Domestic law of
- Malta
§5Sources and verification
- Sources consulted
- Verification
Medium confidence.
Partly verified
Medium confidence.Dates are from search summaries of the Council of Europe profile, the EPIC/WorldLII report and the staged-commencement notes on the Cap. 440 text; the legislation.mt text itself was not fetched. The repeal date of 2018-05-28 follows the in-force date of the existing Cap. 586 row.