15.—(1) Except as provided in this section, personal data shall not Prohibition be processed by a data controller unless the registration particulars of on processing that data controller are included in the register maintained under section registrati on. 17 (or is treated by virtue of regulations made under section 16(3) as being so included).
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to—
(a) processing; or
(b) datacontrollers, ofa particular description specified by the Minister, after consultation with the Commissioner, for the purposes of this section by order published in the Gazette and subject to affirmative resolution, being processing which it appears to the Minister is unlikely to prejudice the rights and freedoms of data subjects.
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