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Customer and Product Data Act 2025

Administrative matters - Accreditation of requestors

117: Renewal of accreditation

You could also call this:

"How to keep your special permission to ask for data"

If you are an accredited requestor, you can ask to renew your accreditation. This means you want to keep being an accredited requestor for longer.

If you ask to renew before your accreditation runs out, you can keep being an accredited requestor until the chief executive decides about your renewal.

If your accreditation has already run out when you ask to renew, you can't just renew it. Instead, you need to apply for a new accreditation, just like you did the first time.

When you want to renew, you need to follow the rules set out in the regulations. These rules tell you how to apply for renewal.

The same rules that were used when you first applied for accreditation will be used to decide about your renewal. This includes sections 109 to 113 of the law. But sometimes, there might be different rules just for renewals. If there are, you'll need to follow those instead.

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Part 5Administrative matters
Accreditation of requestors

117Renewal of accreditation

  1. An accredited requestor may apply to renew its accreditation.

  2. If a renewal application is made on or before the date of expiry of an accredited requestor’s accreditation, the accreditation continues to have effect until the renewal application is decided by the chief executive.

  3. If the accredited requestor’s accreditation expires before a renewal application is made, instead of a renewal application, the accredited requestor must make a fresh application for accreditation under section 108.

  4. A renewal application must be made in the manner prescribed by the regulations (if any).

  5. Sections 109 to 113 apply to the making of a renewal application under this section as if it were an original application for accreditation (except to the extent that this Act or the regulations provide different requirements for renewal applications).