Legal Register
ACT-44 Scheduled
Status: mixed: s44(1),(3) 2025-11-13; s44(2) 2027-05-13
Section 44: Phased consequential amendments
Do not declare IT Act43A/SPDI displaced before applicable commencement; independent amendments need checking.
Regulated Actor: Legislature / affected enactments
Gazette Baseline: Lines 983–1005
Statutory Trigger
Phased consequential amendments
Applies to: Legislature / affected enactments
Substantive Conditions
TDSAT, IT Act and RTI amendments.
Statutory Exceptions
44(2) delayed; 44(1),(3) immediate tranche.
Official Gazette Text (Verbatim Publication)
Ministry of Law and Justice publication, Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
24 of 1997. 44. (1) In section 14 of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997, in Amendments
clause (c), for sub-clauses (i) and (ii), the following sub-clauses shall be substituted, to certain
Acts.
namely:—
20 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—
“(i) the Appellate Tribunal under the Information Technology Act, 2000; 21 of 2000.
(ii) the Appellate Tribunal under the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority
of India Act, 2008; and 27 of 2008.
(iii) the Appellate Tribunal under the Digital Personal Data Protection
Act, 2023.”.
(2) The Information Technology Act, 2000 shall be amended in the following manner, 21 of 2000.
namely:—
(a) section 43A shall be omitted;
(b) in section 81, in the proviso, after the words and figures “the Patents
Act, 1970”, the words and figures “or the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023” 39 of 1970.
shall be inserted; and
(c) in section 87, in sub-section (2), clause (ob) shall be omitted.
(3) In section 8 of the Right to Information Act, 2005, in sub-section (1), for clause (j), 22 of 2005.
the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—
“(j) information which relates to personal information;”.