Legal Register
ACT-17(3) Tranche 3 (13 May 2027) — Core Operating Cliff
Status: scheduled, not yet operative
Section 17(3): Notification considering volume/nature
Keep notification ID and applicability facts.
Regulated Actor: Central Government; notified fiduciary/class including eligible startup
Gazette Baseline: Lines 567–575
Statutory Trigger
Notification considering volume/nature
Applies to: Central Government; notified fiduciary/class including eligible startup
Substantive Conditions
s5,s8(3),(7),s10,s11 disapplied for notified class.
Statutory Exceptions
Startup recognition alone not exemption.
Official Gazette Text (Verbatim Publication)
Ministry of Law and Justice publication, Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
(3) The Central Government may, having regard to the volume and nature of personal
data processed, notify certain Data Fiduciaries or class of Data Fiduciaries, including startups,
as Data Fiduciaries to whom the provisions of section 5, sub-sections (3) and (7) of
section 8 and sections 10 and 11 shall not apply.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this sub-section, the term “startup” means a
private limited company or a partnership firm or a limited liability partnership incorporated
in India, which is eligible to be and is recognised as such in accordance with the criteria and
process notified by the department to which matters relating to startups are allocated in the
Central Government.