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Customer and Product Data Act 2025

Preliminary provisions - Interpretation

6: Data holder

You could also call this:

“Who is in charge of keeping important customer and product information”

You are a data holder if two things are true about you. First, you must be named in special rules or be part of a group that is named in these rules. Second, you must either have important information about customers or products, or someone else must have this information for you. The important information is called ‘designated customer data’ or ‘designated product data’. If both of these things are true about you, then you are considered a data holder under this law.

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Part 1 Preliminary provisions
Interpretation

6Data holder

  1. A person is a data holder if—

  2. the person is specified, or belongs to a class specified, in designation regulations; and
    1. either—
      1. the person holds designated customer data or designated product data (or both); or
        1. another person holds that data on behalf of the person described in paragraph (a).