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Customer and Product Data Act 2025

Administrative matters - Register

124: Persons that will become data holders when designation comes into force must provide information to chief executive

You could also call this:

“New data holders must tell the boss about themselves before rules start”

If new rules are made about how people should share information, but these rules haven’t started yet, this law tells you what to do if you think you’ll need to follow these rules when they start.

If you think you’ll need to share information when the new rules start, you need to tell the person in charge some details about yourself. You need to do this at least 20 working days before the rules start.

You need to tell them:

Your name and your New Zealand Business Number. An address in New Zealand where people can contact you. Which new rules you think you’ll need to follow. Other details about who you are and how to contact you, if the rules say you need to share this. Any other information that the rules say needs to be put in a list of people who share information.

The rules might say how you need to give this information to the person in charge.

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124Persons that will become data holders when designation comes into force must provide information to chief executive

  1. This section applies if—

  2. designation regulations have been made but a provision under section 107(1)(a) (designated persons) has not yet come into force; and
    1. a person (A) knows, or ought reasonably to know, that it is likely to become a data holder when the provision comes into force.

      1. A must, in the manner prescribed by the regulations (if any), provide the following information to the chief executive at least 20 working days before the provision under section 107(1)(a) comes into force:

      2. A’s name and New Zealand Business Number:
        1. a physical address for service in New Zealand for A:
          1. the designation regulations in relation to which A is likely to be designated:
            1. the identifying information and contact details for A that are prescribed by the regulations:
              1. the information prescribed by the regulations to be included in the register under section 126:
                1. the information prescribed by the regulations to be included in the register under section 127.