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Customer and Product Data Bill

Protections - Restriction on who may request regulated data service

43: Offence for contravention of request restriction

You could also call this:

“You could get in trouble for asking for customer information when you're not allowed to”

This bill proposes to make it against the law to request or pretend to request certain types of customer information when you’re not allowed to. If you do this and you know you’re not supposed to, you could be breaking the law.

If you break this law, you might get in big trouble. If you’re an individual person, you could go to jail for up to 5 years or have to pay a fine of up to $1 million, or both. If you’re not an individual (like if you’re a company), you might have to pay an even bigger fine of up to $5 million.

Remember, this is just a proposed law right now. It’s not the actual law yet, but it might become the law in the future.

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“Checking who's asking for customer information”

Part 3 Protections
Restriction on who may request regulated data service

43Offence for contravention of request restriction

  1. A person commits an offence if the person—

  2. requests, or purports to request, a regulated data service that relates to a customer in contravention of section 42; and
    1. knows that they are not permitted to make the request.

      1. A person that commits an offence against this section is liable on conviction,—

      2. in the case of an individual, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or to a fine not exceeding $1 million (or both):
        1. in any other case, to a fine not exceeding $5 million.