Cap. 586 Art. 6Safeguards and derogations relating to processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.

(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-article (4), controllers and processors may derogate from the provisions of

Articles 15, 16, 18 and 21 of the Regulation for the processing of personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or official statistics in so far as the exercise of the rights set out in those Articles:

(a) is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of those purposes; and

(b) the data controller reasonably believes that such derogations are necessary for the fulfilment of those purposes.

(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-article (4), controllers and processors may derogate from the provisions of Articles 15, 16, 18, 19, 20 and 21 of the Regulation for the processing of personal data for archiving purposes in the public interest in so far as the exercise of the rights set out in those Articles:

(a) is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of those purposes; and

(b) the controller reasonably believes that such derogations are necessary for the fulfilment of those purposes.

(3) Where data processing referred to in sub-articles (1) and

(2) serves at the same time another purpose, the derogations shall apply only to processing for the purposes referred to in those sub-articles.

(4) Processing for the purposes referred to in sub-articles (1) and (2) shall be subject to appropriate safeguards for the rights and freedoms of the data subject, including pseudonymisation and other technical and organisational measures to ensure respect for the principle of data minimisation:

Provided that, where such purposes can be fulfilled by processing which does not permit, or no longer permits, the identification of data subjects, those purposes shall be fulfilled in that manner.