Telling You Late Costs ₹200 Crore
Schedule item 2 — failing to notify the Board or you
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Summary
Not telling has a price. Up to two hundred crore.
Schedule item 2 — failing to notify the Board or you
Full transcript
Not telling has a price. Up to two hundred crore.
Section 8(6) is the duty to intimate
the Board and each affected Data Principal.
In such form and manner as may be prescribed.
Pause. What does missing it cost?
Schedule item two: may extend to two hundred crore.
Second only to the security duty itself.
Two separate duties, two separate prices.
One for the safeguards, one for the telling.
The Schedule prices the cover-up separately.
s.8(6), Schedule item 2 — Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 + Rules, 2025
In force from 13 May 2027