[1]: Section 19 The register of fee payers is the name of an equivalent register established under the Data Protection Act 2018, which implements the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
[1]: Section 1(1) A data controller may, under some circumstances, be exempt from registration (previously termed notification).
[7] When not exempt,[8] failure to notify the Information Commissioner's Office formally before the start of processing data was a strict liability offence for which a prosecution may be brought by the Information Commissioner's Office in the criminal court of the UK.
Exemptions from the charge were left broadly the same as for 1998 Act: largely some businesses and non-profits internal core purposes (staff or members, marketing and accounting), household affairs, some public purposes, and non-automated processing.
[13][14] Under the 2018 Act, the enforcement regime for registration changed from criminal to civil monetary penalties.