Part 5Administrative matters
Designation regulations
105Minister must have regard to certain matters when recommending designation regulations
Before recommending that designation regulations be made, the Minister must have regard to the following:
- the interests of customers, including Māori customers:
- any likely costs and benefits for the person or class of persons that are proposed to become data holders:
- whether the regulations facilitate secure, standardised, and efficient regulated data services:
- the likely benefits and risks associated with the proposed designation regulations in relation to—
- the security, privacy, confidentiality, or other sensitivity of customer data and product data; and
- any intellectual property rights that may exist in relation to customer data or product data.
- the security, privacy, confidentiality, or other sensitivity of customer data and product data; and
In this section, intellectual property rights includes patents, designs, trade marks, copyrights, plant variety rights, know-how, confidential information, trade secrets, and similar rights.