Section 56 of the Data Protection Act 2018 provides for an Article 15 right of access to results, scripts of examination and results of an appeal. Article 15 requests made in relation to examination results or scripts completed during the course of an examination, are taken to be made on the later of:

(a) The date of the first publication of the results of the examination, or

(b) The date of the request

An Article 15 request for the result of an appeal against an examination is taken to have been made on the later of:

1. The date of the first publication of the results of the appeal, or

2. The date of the request

For example, the Leaving Certificate State examinations are usually held during the month of June and the results released during August. Therefore, regardless as to when the request was made, the Article 15 request is taken to have been made the later of the date of publication of the examination results (August) or the date of the request itself. If the request was made in June, that is the actual date of the request, but the request is taken to have been made in August, on the date the results were released.