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Customer and Product Data Act 2025

Administrative matters - Crown organisations

120: Crown organisations may be customer, data holder, or accredited requestor

You could also call this:

"Government groups can be customers, hold data, or ask for data"

This law talks about how parts of the government, called Crown organisations, can be involved in the Customer and Product Data Act 2025.

If a Crown organisation is like its own separate entity, it can do three things under this law:

  1. It can be a customer.
  2. It can be a data holder.
  3. It can be an accredited requestor.

These Crown organisations have to follow the rules of the Act as if they were their own separate legal entity.

However, if a part of the government isn't a Crown organisation and isn't its own separate entity, it can't do any of those three things. It can't be a customer, a data holder, or an accredited requestor by itself.

To understand what exactly a Crown organisation is, you need to look at another law called the Crown Organisations (Criminal Liability) Act 2002. The definition of a Crown organisation in that law is the same one used here.

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Part 5Administrative matters
Crown organisations

120Crown organisations may be customer, data holder, or accredited requestor

  1. For the purposes of this Act, an instrument of the Crown that is a Crown organisation (whether or not a body corporate)—

  2. must be treated as if it were a separate legal personality for the purpose of complying with this Act; and
    1. may be a customer, a data holder, or an accredited requestor in its own right.

      1. For the purposes of this Act, an instrument of the Crown that is neither a Crown organisation nor a body corporate—

      2. does not have separate legal personality; and
        1. cannot be a customer, a data holder, or an accredited requestor in its own right.

          1. In this section, Crown organisation has the same meaning as in section 4 of the Crown Organisations (Criminal Liability) Act 2002.

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          • 2015 No 70 s 5