Health & Safety
This 1974 Act is the cornerstone of UK workplace health and safety law.
What is the Health and Safety at Work Act?
This UK regulation governs how personal data is processed post-Brexit.
What is the UK GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)?
This 1990 Act criminalises unauthorised access to computer systems.
What is the Computer Misuse Act?
This 2010 Act consolidated previous anti-discrimination laws.
What is the Equality Act 2010?
This type of IP protects original literary, musical, and artistic works.
What is copyright?
Employers must conduct risk assessments under this 1999 regulation.
What are the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations?
This 2018 Act supplements the UK GDPR and includes provisions for law enforcement.
This 2018 Act supplements the UK GDPR and includes provisions for law enforcement.
Section 1 of the Act covers this basic offence.
What is unauthorised access to computer material?
This term refers to the nine areas protected under the Act, such as age and race.
What are protected characteristics?
This IP right protects inventions and requires formal registration.
What is a patent?
This regulation requires employers to report workplace injuries and dangerous occurrences.
What is RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations)?
This principle requires data to be used fairly, lawfully, and transparently.
What is the first data protection principle?
Section 2 escalates the offence if the access is used to commit further crimes.
What is unauthorised access with intent to commit or facilitate further offences?
This type of discrimination occurs when a policy applies to everyone but disadvantages a group.
What is indirect discrimination?
This Act updated UK IP law in 2014, especially around design rights.
What is the Intellectual Property Act 2014?
This body enforces health and safety law in most UK workplaces.
What is the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)?
This UK authority oversees and enforces data protection laws.
What is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)?
This section criminalises the creation or distribution of hacking tools.
What is Section 3A of the Computer Misuse Act?
This form of discrimination involves treating someone unfairly because they are associated with someone who has a protected characteristic.
What is discrimination by association?
This type of IP protects brand names and logos.
What is a trademark?