3Purpose

1. The purpose of this Act is to establish a framework to—

2. realise the value of certain data for the benefit of customers and society; and
3. promote competition and innovation for the long-term benefit of customers; and
4. facilitate secure, standardised, and efficient data services in certain sectors of the New Zealand economy.

5. The purpose is to be achieved by—

6. improving the ability of customers, and third parties they authorise, to access and use the data held about them by participants in those sectors; and
7. improving access to data about products in those sectors; and
8. requiring certain safeguards, controls, standards, and functionality in connection with those data services.