Legislation

• In the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, what would your employer be responsible for?


  • Deciding what could harm you in your job and the precautions to stop it.

  • Explaining how risks will be controlled.

  • Consulting and working with you and your health and safety representatives in protecting everyone from harm in the workplace.

  • Providing home working equipment relevant to your health and safety in the workplace.
• The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 provides the government with certain powers such as:


  Acquiring and analysing collections of communications data e.g. NHS health records. This can only be undertaken in cases of serious crime, such as a sentence of 12 months minimum.
• The Freedom of information act 2000


  • Public authorities are required to publish information about data being collected and members of the public are allowed to request to see information that has been held by them.

  • This act often used by journalists.
• What are the 4 parts of The Computer Misuse Act 1990?

  1. Unauthorised access
  2. Unauthorised access with intent to do harm
  3. Unauthorised access and modification
  4. Creating a system that allows you to do any of the above
• What are the 6 parts of The Digital Economy Act 2017?

  1. Access to digital services
  2. Digital infrastructure
  3. Online pornography
  4. Intellectual property
  5. Digital government
  6. Miscellaneous
• Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018


  Impose a legal duty for public organisations to ensure that their websites and applications meet accessibility requirements for disabled people.

  This includes people with:

  • Impaired vision
  • Motor difficulties
  • Cognitive impairments or learning disabilities
  • Deafness or impaired hearing
• Following the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018 what are the four simple steps organisations can follow to ensure accessibility?

  1. Accessibility audits
  2. Fix accessibility issues
  3. Publish an accessibility statement
  4. Ensure new features are accessible
• Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  • Enables creators better ownership of their work
  • Allows owners to control how their work is used
  • When you buy software, you are not allowed by law to give a copy to a friend or make a copy and sell it.