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Customer and Product Data Act 2025

Regulated data services - Additional obligations - Electronic system

30: Offence for failing to comply with notice to test electronic system

You could also call this:

"You can get in trouble if you don't follow a notice to test an electronic system"

If you get a notice to test an electronic system under section 29, you must follow it. You can get in trouble if you don't do what the notice says without a good reason. You can also get in trouble if you give a report to the chief executive that you know isn't true or is misleading about something important.

If you break these rules, you might have to pay a fine. If you're an individual person, the fine can be up to $100,000. For any other type of entity, like a company, the fine can be up to $300,000.

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Part 2Regulated data services
Additional obligations: Electronic system

30Offence for failing to comply with notice to test electronic system

  1. A person commits an offence if the person—

  2. refuses or fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a notice under section 29; or
    1. in purported compliance with a notice under section 29, gives a report to the chief executive knowing it to be false or misleading in a material particular.

      1. A person that commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding—

      2. $100,000 in the case of an individual:
        1. $300,000 in any other case.