Norway. Comprehensive data protection. Act

Personal Data Act 2000Act of 14 April 2000 No. 31 relating to the processing of personal data (Personal Data Act)

Repealed/superseded

§1Summary

Synopsis

Norway's general data protection act from 2001 until the GDPR era. It covered the processing of personal data and repealed the 1978 Act on personal data filing systems. A new Personal Data Act, which makes the GDPR part of Norwegian law, replaced it on 20 July 2018.

Key themes
  • protection of privacy in the processing of personal data
SaaS relevance

Historical only; replaced by the Personal Data Act 2018 (no-personopplysningsloven-2018).

§2Dates

Key dates
  • Adopted
  • In force
  • Ended
  • Adopted 2000-04-14; in force 2001-01-01; replaced by the Personal Data Act of 2018 on 2018-07-20

§3Text and authority

Text
Authority
Datatilsynet (Norwegian Data Protection Authority)

§4Where it applies

Domestic law of
Norway

§5Sources and verification

Sources consulted
Verification

High confidence.

The English text on the UCI page leaves the commencement date to the King (section 50); Norwegian Wikipedia gives 2001-01-01. The 2018-07-20 repeal date is taken from the same page and matches the in-force date of the existing 2018 row. The English text is an unofficial translation.