Legal Register
ACT-7(i) Tranche 3 (13 May 2027) — Core Operating Cliff
Status: scheduled, not yet operative
Section 7(i): Qualifying use under s7
No numbered statutory recruitment/onboarding limbs; applicant/monitoring boundaries need fact-specific assessment.
Regulated Actor: Data Fiduciary processing for employment/employer protection
Gazette Baseline: Lines 326–329
Statutory Trigger
Qualifying use under s7
Applies to: Data Fiduciary processing for employment/employer protection
Substantive Conditions
Employment or safeguarding employer from loss/liability, with listed examples and employee-sought service/benefit.
Statutory Exceptions
Must satisfy s4 and other applicable obligations; this clause is not blanket immunity.
Official Gazette Text (Verbatim Publication)
Ministry of Law and Justice publication, Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
(i) for the purposes of employment or those related to safeguarding the employer
from loss or liability, such as prevention of corporate espionage, maintenance of
confidentiality of trade secrets, intellectual property, classified information or provision
of any service or benefit sought by a Data Principal who is an employee.