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OBL-22 Rule 15 (transfer) RULE-15 ACT-16

OBL-22: Cross-Border Data Transfer Governance (Rule 15)

Enforces cross-border transfer blacklists, adequacy checks, and contractual transfer terms.

Statutory scope: Rule 15 (transfer) · Assigned to Architecture / sector Legal · Systems: Foreign-Region Secondary Backup Replica (SYS-008); Overseas Analytics Cluster (SYS-009)

Operational Interface Requirement

Recommended interface: Remove an applicable destination/sector decision; expected outcome is block/review, not permission from a hosting-region label.

Expected Audit Assertion / Test Result

Remove an applicable destination/sector decision; expected outcome is block/review, not permission from a hosting-region label.

Governance & Architecture

Recommended Activity Owner
Architecture / sector Legal
Target Systems & Interfaces

Verification Specification & Workpaper

Proposed Test Specimen ID
SPEC-Q10-OBL-22

proposed per-row review/acceptance specification; not a claim of executed statutory coverage

Populated Teaching Workpaper
out/dossier/CASE-001/transfer-decisions.json

populated hypothetical decision/specimen; not actual enterprise execution

Local Execution Reference
out/dossier/CASE-001/tests/results.json

Canonical Statutory Grounding

Source references verified against the official Gazette of India publication baseline.

RULE-15 Lines 1319–1323
Commencement: 2027-05-13 (scheduled, not yet operative)
Obligated Actor

Data Fiduciary; Central Government

Trigger Context

Foreign transfer/access

Statutory Conditions

Meet general/special order requirements for making personal data available to foreign State/controlled person/entity/agency.

Statutory Exceptions

Also s16 and conditional r13(4), plus sector duties.

ACT-16 Lines 515–522
Commencement: 2027-05-13 (scheduled, not yet operative)
Obligated Actor

Central Government; Data Fiduciary

Trigger Context

Offshore processing/transfer

Statutory Conditions

Government may notify destination restrictions.

Statutory Exceptions

s16(2) preserves higher protection/restriction in other Indian law for transfers.