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Customer and Product Data Bill

Regulatory and enforcement matters - Prohibition against holding out

64: Prohibition against holding out

You could also call this:

“Don't pretend to be someone who can ask for or give special information”

The proposed law says that you must not pretend that you or someone else is an accredited requestor if they are not. An accredited requestor is someone who is officially allowed to ask for certain information.

You also must not pretend that you or someone else can legally make specific types of requests about regulated data services if they can’t. Regulated data services are special kinds of information that are controlled by rules.

Finally, you must not claim that you or someone else can provide certain goods or services related to regulated data services if that’s not true.

This new rule is part of a bigger set of laws about how customer and product information is handled and protected.

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Part 4 Regulatory and enforcement matters
Prohibition against holding out

64Prohibition against holding out

  1. A person must not hold out that the person, or another person,—

  2. is an accredited requestor if that is not the case; or
    1. is lawfully able to do any of the following if that is not the case:
      1. make a particular kind of request in connection with a regulated data service; and
        1. provide particular kinds of goods or services in connection with a regulated data service.