Data Protection Commissioner

70.(1) There shall be a public officer, to be called the Data Protection Commissioner, who shall be responsible for the general administration of this Act.

(2) A person is qualified to hold or to act in the post of Data Protection Commissioner, where that person is qualified to practise as an attorney-at- law and has so practised for a period of not less than 7 years, or for periods amounting in the aggregate to not less than 7 years.

(3) In this section “practise as an attorney-at-law” includes any period during which a person served as an attorney-at-law, advocate, barrister-at-law, solicitor, parliamentary counsel, magistrate or registrar of a court of competent jurisdiction in some part of the Commonwealth, or as a professor or teacher of law at the University of the West Indies or at a school for legal education approved by the Judicial and Legal Service Commission.