Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010 - SECT 56BK

             (1)  The consumer data rules cannot impose on a person a requirement that has a retrospective commencement or application.

Example:    The rules cannot require a data holder to disclose CDR data on a day before the rules are registered, or on a day before the registration of a variation to the rules that includes the requirement.

Note:          Other limitations on the consumer data rules are in sections 56BD, 56BF and 56BG.

             (2)  To avoid doubt, the consumer data rules may require a person to do something on a particular day, in relation to CDR data generated or collected on an earlier day, if the person:

                     (a)  is a data holder of the CDR data; or

                     (b)  is an accredited person; or

                     (c)  is a person who has given a valid request under the consumer data rules relating to the CDR data; or

                     (d)  is a designated gateway for the CDR data.

Example:    A data holder is given a valid request to disclose CDR data that was generated before the rules are registered. The rules can require that disclosure.

             (3)  The regulations may provide that the consumer data rules:

                     (a)  have no effect to the extent that the consumer data rules deal with specified matters, or impose specified requirements, in relation to:

                              (i)  specified classes of CDR data; or

                             (ii)  specified classes of persons; or

                     (b)  only have effect to the extent that the consumer data rules deal with specified matters, or impose specified requirements, in relation to:

                              (i)  specified classes of CDR data; or

                             (ii)  specified classes of persons.

The consumer data rules have effect (or no effect) accordingly.

             (4)  Subsections (1) and (3) apply despite any other provision of this Division.