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Customer and Product Data Act 2025

Regulated data services - Additional obligations - Requirements for requests, providing services, and making information available

35: Contravention of specified disclosure requirement is infringement offence

You could also call this:

“Breaking rules about sharing information can get you in trouble and you might have to pay money”

If you don’t follow certain rules about sharing information, you can get in trouble. These rules are called “specified disclosure requirements”. If you break these rules, you have committed an infringement offence. This means you might have to pay a fine.

If you break these rules, you might have to pay $20,000 as an infringement fee. Or, if you go to court, you might have to pay up to $50,000 as a fine.

The “specified disclosure requirements” are rules that are written in sections 31, 32, 33, and 34 of this law. These rules tell you what information you need to share. The exact details of these rules are explained in other documents called regulations and standards.

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Part 2 Regulated data services
Additional obligations: Requirements for requests, providing services, and making information available

35Contravention of specified disclosure requirement is infringement offence

  1. A person that contravenes a specified disclosure requirement commits an infringement offence and is liable to—

  2. an infringement fee of $20,000; or
    1. a fine imposed by a court not exceeding $50,000.

      1. In this section and section 70, specified disclosure requirement means a requirement imposed under section 31(1)(c), 32(1)(b), 33(1), or 34 that is specified by the regulations or standards for the purposes of this section.