Legal Register
ACT-17(2)(a) Tranche 3 (13 May 2027) — Core Operating Cliff
Status: scheduled, not yet operative
Section 17(2)(a): Specified notification/security/public-order interests
Do not substitute an assumed general State exemption.
Regulated Actor: Notified State instrumentality and Central Government receiving its data
Gazette Baseline: Lines 555–561
Statutory Trigger
Specified notification/security/public-order interests
Applies to: Notified State instrumentality and Central Government receiving its data
Substantive Conditions
Instrumentality must be notified for listed interests; includes Government processing furnished data.
Statutory Exceptions
Act-level exemption for qualifying processing.
Official Gazette Text (Verbatim Publication)
Ministry of Law and Justice publication, Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
(2) The provisions of this Act shall not apply in respect of the processing of personal
data—
(a) by such instrumentality of the State as the Central Government may notify,
in the interests of sovereignty and integrity of India, security of the State, friendly
relations with foreign States, maintenance of public order or preventing incitement to
any cognizable offence relating to any of these, and the processing by the Central
Government of any personal data that such instrumentality may furnish to it; and