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Customer and Product Data Act 2025

Administrative matters - Accreditation of requestors

111: Chief executive must verify applicant’s identity

You could also call this:

"The boss checks who you are when you ask for something"

The chief executive has to make sure they know who you are when you apply. They need to take reasonable steps to check your identity. This means they will do what they can to confirm that you are really who you say you are. The chief executive needs to be satisfied that they have figured out your identity correctly.

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Part 5Administrative matters
Accreditation of requestors

111Chief executive must verify applicant’s identity

  1. The chief executive must take reasonable steps to verify each applicant’s identity so that the chief executive is satisfied that they know who the applicant is.