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Customer and Product Data Bill

Regulatory and enforcement matters - Civil liability - Compensatory orders

81: Terms of compensatory orders

You could also call this:

“How courts can help if someone misuses your data”

This proposed law is about what happens when someone breaks the rules about customer and product data. If you’ve been hurt because someone broke these rules, a court or the Disputes Tribunal might be able to help you.

The court or Disputes Tribunal can make orders to help fix the problem. They can tell the person who broke the rules to pay you money to make up for what you lost. But they’re not limited to just that - they can make any order they think is fair to help you or to stop you from losing more.

When the law talks about the “relevant person” who might have to pay, it means either the person who broke the rules or anyone else who was involved in breaking them.

Remember, this isn’t the law yet - it’s just a proposal for a new law that might be made in the future.

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Part 4 Regulatory and enforcement matters
Civil liability: Compensatory orders

81Terms of compensatory orders

  1. If section 80 applies, the court or the Disputes Tribunal may make any order it thinks just to compensate an aggrieved person in whole or in part for the loss or damage, or to prevent or reduce the loss or damage, referred to in that section.

  2. An order may include an order to direct a relevant person to pay to the aggrieved person the amount of the loss or damage (in whole or in part).

  3. Subsection (2) does not limit subsection (1).

  4. In this section, relevant person means—

  5. any person in contravention; or
    1. any person involved in the contravention.