Modern Periodic Law is a series of laws and amendments made to the original Magna Carta.
On December 3rd, 2020, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed Modern Periodic Law, a series of laws and amendments that altered several clauses in the original Magna Carta. The first Modern Periodic Law was passed in December 2020 as a response to protests over Section 2 of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014. This section granted police forces access to any citizen’s data without their consent or knowledge. The law was later challenged in court and deemed unconstitutional.
The second Modern Periodic Law came into effect on May 5th, 2021, after being passed by Parliament just days earlier. This law changed several sections of Article 29 of the Magna Carta from 1215.
