OBL-40: Right to Nominate Representative (Section 14)

Enables Data Principals to nominate a representative to exercise rights upon death or incapacity.

Statutory scope: Section 14 · Assigned to Rights operations / Legal · Systems: Principal Rights & Grievance Service (SYS-011); nominee authority record

Operational Interface Requirement

Recommended interface: Activate an unverified nominee or reuse authority after recovery; expected outcome is pause/reject while the original subject identity remains unchanged.

Expected Audit Assertion / Test Result

Activate an unverified nominee or reuse authority after recovery; expected outcome is pause/reject while the original subject identity remains unchanged.

Governance & Architecture

Recommended Activity Owner

Rights operations / Legal

Target Systems & Interfaces

Principal Rights & Grievance ServiceSYS-011nominee authority record

Mechanism Chapter

Chapter 12 — Rights, Grievances, Identity and Nomination

Verification Specification & Workpaper

Proposed Test Specimen ID

SPEC-Q10-OBL-40

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

Populated Teaching Workpaper

out/dossier/CASE-001/rights-case.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.

ACT-14 Lines 489–495

Commencement: 2027-05-13 (scheduled, not yet operative)

Obligated Actor

Data Principal and nominated individual

Trigger Context

Death or incapacity activates nomination

Statutory Conditions

Nominee exercises principal rights; incapacity defined by inability due to unsound mind/infirmity of body.

Statutory Exceptions

Rule14(4), terms of service and applicable law govern implementation.

View Official Gazette Document

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