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Customer and Product Data Act 2025

Administrative matters - Regulations, standards, and exemptions - Regulations

132: Minister must have regard to certain matters when recommending regulations under section 131

You could also call this:

“Minister must consider customers and businesses when making new rules”

When the Minister wants to make new rules under section 131, they need to think about a few important things. You should know that the Minister has to consider the needs of customers, including Māori customers. They also have to think about how much it might cost companies that hold data and what good things might come from the new rules.

The Minister needs to make sure the new rules help create safe, standard, and efficient ways to handle regulated data services. They also have to think about how the new rules might help or cause problems with keeping customer and product data safe, private, and confidential.

If you want to know more about making rules for certain types of data, you can look at section 131(2). This section talks about rules for data mentioned in section 131(1)(d).

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Part 5 Administrative matters
Regulations, standards, and exemptions: Regulations

132Minister must have regard to certain matters when recommending regulations under section 131

  1. Before recommending that regulations be made under section 131, the Minister must have regard to the following:

  2. the interests of customers, including Māori customers:
    1. any likely costs and benefits for data holders:
      1. whether the regulations facilitate secure, standardised, and efficient regulated data services:
        1. the likely benefits and risks associated with the proposed regulations in relation to the security, privacy, confidentiality, or other sensitivity of customer data and product data.

          1. See also section 131(2) in relation to regulations under section 131(1)(d).