Legal Register
ACT-17(1)(e) Tranche 3 (13 May 2027) — Core Operating Cliff
Status: scheduled, not yet operative
Section 17(1)(e): Qualifying processing
No citizenship shortcut or broad reasonable-purpose ground; read common chapeau ACT-17.
Regulated Actor: Person implementing qualified corporate scheme
Gazette Baseline: Lines 537–542
Statutory Trigger
Qualifying processing
Applies to: Person implementing qualified corporate scheme
Substantive Conditions
Necessary for listed restructuring scheme approved by competent court/tribunal/authority.
Statutory Exceptions
Chapter II except s8(1),(5), Chapter III and s16 disapplied; s8(1),(5) remain.
Official Gazette Text (Verbatim Publication)
Ministry of Law and Justice publication, Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
(e) the processing is necessary for a scheme of compromise or arrangement or
merger or amalgamation of two or more companies or a reconstruction by way of
demerger or otherwise of a company, or transfer of undertaking of one or more company
to another company, or involving division of one or more companies, approved by a
court or tribunal or other authority competent to do so by any law for the time being
in force; and