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Customer and Product Data Bill

Preliminary provisions - Interpretation

9: Product, product data, and designated product data

You could also call this:

“Explaining what 'product', 'product data', and 'designated product data' mean in the new law”

This part of the proposed law explains what ‘product’, ‘product data’, and ‘designated product data’ mean for companies that hold data.

When the law talks about a ‘product’, it means any goods or services that a company offers to customers.

‘Product data’ is information about a company’s products. But it’s important to know that ‘product data’ doesn’t include information about customers.

‘Designated product data’ is a special kind of product data. It’s product data that the new law specifically mentions or describes. This data must be held by the company (or someone acting for them) on or after a certain date. The exact details of what counts as ‘designated product data’ and the date from which it applies will be written in separate rules called ‘designation regulations’.

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Part 1 Preliminary provisions
Interpretation

9Product, product data, and designated product data

  1. Product, in relation to a data holder, means goods or services offered by the data holder.

  2. Product data, in relation to a data holder,—

  3. means data that is about, or relates to, 1 or more of the data holder’s products; but
    1. does not include customer data.

      1. Designated product data, in relation to a data holder and a provision of this Act, means product data—

      2. that is specified, or belongs to a class specified, in the data holder’s designation regulations for the purposes of that provision; and
        1. that is held by (or on behalf of) the data holder on or after the day specified in, or determined in accordance with, the designation regulations.