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“(b) any person or body having, under the Treaty on European Union or any other tre-
aty to which the United Kingdom is a party, the function of receiving information of the kind in
question,
(c) any person or body having, under the law of any country or territory outside the
United Kingdom, the function of receiving information relating to the proceeds of crime”, and the
“and” preceding paragraph (m) is omitted.
81- Inspection of overseas information systems
After section 54 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (c. 29) there is inserted—
“54A Inspection of overseas information systems
(1) The Commissioner may inspect any personal data recorded in—
(a) the Schengen information system,
(b) the Europol information system,
(c) the Customs information system.
(2) The power conferred by subsection (1) is exercisable only for the purpose of assessing
whether or not any processing of the data has been or is being carried out in compliance with
this Act.
(3) The power includes power to inspect, operate and test equipment which is used for the
processing of personal data.
(4) Before exercising the power, the Commissioner must give notice in writing of his intention
to do so to the data controller.
(5) But subsection (4) does not apply if the Commissioner considers that the case is one of
urgency.
(6) Any person who—
(a) intentionally obstructs a person exercising the power conferred by subsection (1), or
(b) fails without reasonable excuse to give any person exercising the power any assistance he
may reasonably require, is guilty of an offence.
(7) In this section—
“the Customs information system” means the information system established under Chapter
II of the Convention on the Use of Information Technology for Customs Purposes,