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Customer and Product Data Bill

Regulatory and enforcement matters - Civil liability - Injunctions

82: Court may grant injunctions

You could also call this:

“The court can order people to follow or stop breaking the rules about customer and product data”

This proposed law would give the court the power to issue injunctions. An injunction is an order that tells someone to do something or to stop doing something. The court could do this if someone asks them to, like the chief executive or any other person.

The court might tell someone to stop doing something that goes against a civil liability provision in the law. This could include actually breaking the rule, trying to break it, or being involved in breaking it.

The court could also tell someone to do something if they haven’t done it, aren’t doing it, or are planning not to do it. But this only applies if not doing that thing would break a civil liability provision.

Remember, this is just a proposed change to the law, not the current law. It’s part of a bill called the Customer and Product Data Bill.

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Part 4 Regulatory and enforcement matters
Civil liability: Injunctions

82Court may grant injunctions

  1. The court may, on application by the chief executive or any other person, grant an injunction—

  2. restraining a person from engaging or continuing to engage in conduct that constitutes or would constitute a contravention, an attempted contravention, or an involvement in a contravention of a civil liability provision; or
    1. requiring a person to do an act or a thing if—
      1. that person has refused or failed, is refusing or failing, or is proposing to refuse or fail to do that act or thing; and
        1. the refusal or failure was, is, or would be a contravention of a civil liability provision.