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Customer and Product Data Bill

Administrative matters - Crown organisations

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

You could also call this:

“Government groups can share, hold, or ask for customer info”

This part of the proposed law talks about how different parts of the government can be involved in sharing customer and product information. If you’re part of a government organisation that is considered a ‘Crown organisation’, you would be treated as if you were your own separate entity when it comes to following this law. This means you could be a customer, someone who holds data, or someone who is allowed to ask for data.

However, if you’re part of the government but not a Crown organisation or a separate legal entity, you wouldn’t be treated as your own separate entity. This means you couldn’t be a customer, hold data, or ask for data in your own right under this law.

The law uses a special term called ‘Crown organisation’. To understand what this means, you would need to look at another law called the Crown Organisations (Criminal Liability) Act 2002.

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Part 5 Administrative matters
Crown organisations

115Crown organisations may be customer, data holder, or accredited requestor

  1. 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. 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.