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Customer and Product Data Bill

Preliminary provisions - Interpretation

6: Data holder

You could also call this:

“Who keeps important customer and product information?”

The proposed law says that you can be called a ‘data holder’ if two things are true about you. First, you need to be named in special rules, or be part of a group that’s named in these rules. Second, you need to either have certain kinds of information about customers or products, or have someone else keep this information for you. This information is called ‘designated customer data’ or ‘designated product data’. So, if you fit both of these conditions, you would be considered a ‘data holder’ under this new 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).