OBL-50: Data Protection Board Inquiry Governance (Sections 18–26)
Maintains operational readiness for regulatory summons, inquiries, and institutional proceedings.
Statutory scope: Sections 18 to 26 — institutional provisions, not appointment evidence · Assigned to Legal / board secretariat · Systems: Governance register; no live Board system asserted
Recommended interface: Substitute recruitment for appointment or mix actor/commencement dates; expected outcome is rejected institutional assertion and a source-review action.
Substitute recruitment for appointment or mix actor/commencement dates; expected outcome is rejected institutional assertion and a source-review action.
Governance & Architecture
Verification Specification & Workpaper
proposed per-row review/acceptance specification; not a claim of executed statutory coverage
populated hypothetical decision/specimen; not actual enterprise execution
Canonical Statutory Grounding
Source references verified against the official Gazette of India publication baseline.
Central Government; Board
Notified establishment
Corporate body; notified headquarters.
Institutional establishment does not commence all substantive powers.
Central Government; Chairperson and Members
Composition and appointment
Chairperson plus notified other membership; prescribed appointments; listed expertise, at least one law expert.
No individual appointed by composition notification alone.
Chairperson and Members
Appointment/service
Prescribed remuneration not varied to disadvantage; two-year term, reappointment eligible.
Other service rules apply.
Central Government; Chairperson and Members
Disqualification/removal
Specified insolvency, conviction, incapacity, interests, abuse grounds; hearing before removal.
Conviction involves moral turpitude in Government opinion.
Chairperson, Members; Central Government
Resignation, vacancy, cessation
Effective at earliest listed event; fresh appointment; one-year employment restriction/approval and later fiduciary-employment disclosure.
Prior Government approval exception.
Board; Chairperson and Members
Meetings/proceedings; Chairperson inability
Prescribed meeting/authentication procedure; senior-most Member acts during inability.
Listed defects do not invalidate merely by their existence.
Board; Central Government
Officers/employees appointment
Previous Central Government approval and prescribed conditions.
Not an unrestricted hiring power.
Chairperson, Members, officers/employees
Acting/purporting to act under Act
Deemed public servants under cited law.
Classification provision, not a new general criminal offence.
Chairperson
Board administration/case allocation
Superintendence; authorise scrutiny and allocate functions/proceedings.
Underlying function still needs applicable statutory power/commencement.