How the Atlas works
How each instrument page is laid out, and why UK information law splits two ways between the reserved data protection regime and devolved freedom of information.
How to read an instrument profile
Every instrument page answers the same ten structural questions and keeps criminal, civil and regulatory consequences apart. What each section tells you, and why it is laid out that way.
Reserved and devolved, why UK information law splits two ways
Data protection is reserved, so the UK has one regime. Freedom of information is devolved in Scotland, so it has two. The split decides which law, which regulator and which procedure applies.