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May 23, 2004
26 Reports by Commissioner
(1) As soon as practicable after the end of each calendar year, the Commissioner
must make a report to the Prime Minister about the carrying out of the
Commissioner.s functions.
(2) The Commissioner may also, at any other time, make such report to the Prime
Minister on any matter relating to the carrying out of those functions as the
Commissioner thinks fit.
(3) The Prime Minister must lay before Parliament a copy of every annual report
made to him under subsection (1).
(4) If it appears to the Prime Minister, after consultation with the Commissioner,
that the publication of a particular matter contained in an annual report would
be contrary to the public interest or prejudicial to.
(a) national security,
(b) the prevention or detection of crime,
(c) the economic well-being of the United Kingdom, or
(d) the continued discharge of the functions of any public authority,
the Prime Minister may exclude that matter from the copy of the report that he
lays before Parliament.
(5) Where a matter is excluded under subsection (4) from a copy of an annual
report laid before Parliament, the Prime Minister must, when he lays that copy
of the annual report, also lay before Parliament a statement that a matter has
been excluded from the report under that subsection.
Posted by wtwu at May 23, 2004 11:25 PM
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Comments
A Commissioner who only produces a single censored annual report is not the mechanism which will reassure the public that privacy abuses are not inherent in the ID Card scheme.
Where is the Privacy Audit or the Independent Statutory Body to oversee the ID cards Scheme as suggested by Richard Thomas the Information Commissioner in his evidence to the Home Affairs Committee on 3rd of February 2004 ?
RECCOMENDATION:
Provide the budget and manpower for the National Identity Rgeister Commissioner to head an Independent Statutory Body with the power to investigate complaints from the general public and to criminally prosecute those who abuse the privacy of those people who are registered on the NIR.
Posted by: wtwu at May 24, 2004 06:02 AM