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Customer and Product Data Act 2025

Administrative matters - Accreditation of requestors

116: Duration of accreditation

You could also call this:

“How long your permission to ask for data lasts”

Your accreditation as an accredited requestor starts when it’s registered and ends when it’s removed from the register. The chief executive will remove your accreditation from the register as soon as they can if:

You tell the chief executive you don’t want to be accredited anymore.

The chief executive cancels your accreditation.

Your accreditation expires, unless you’ve applied to renew it.

The chief executive decides not to renew your accreditation after you’ve applied for renewal.

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Part 5 Administrative matters
Accreditation of requestors

116Duration of accreditation

  1. An accredited requestor’s accreditation starts when the accreditation is registered and ends when the accreditation is removed from the register.

  2. The chief executive must remove an accreditation from the register as soon as practicable after—

  3. the accredited requestor tells the chief executive that it no longer wishes to remain accredited as an accredited requestor; or
    1. the chief executive cancels the accreditation; or
      1. the date of expiry of the accreditation (unless section 117(2) applies); or
        1. the chief executive decides not to renew the accreditation on a renewal application referred to in section 117(2).