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Customer and Product Data Bill

Regulated data services - Additional obligations - Valid requests

26: When request is valid

You could also call this:

“Rules for making a valid request for information or action”

The new law might say when a request is valid. You can make a valid request if you do these things:

You need to clearly say what information or action you want.

You must follow any rules about making requests that are in the standards.

You also need to make your request in the way the regulations say, if there are any rules about that.

If you do all these things, your request will be considered valid under the proposed law.

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Part 2 Regulated data services
Additional obligations: Valid requests

26When request is valid

  1. A request is a valid request if the person making the request—

  2. specifies the data or action being requested; and
    1. complies with the requirements provided for in the standards about making requests (if any); and
      1. otherwise makes the request in the manner prescribed in the regulations (if any).