Legal Register
RULE-12 Tranche 3 (13 May 2027) — Core Operating Cliff
Status: scheduled, not yet operative
Rule 12: Fourth Schedule conditions met
Educational exception is not general commercial edtech or targeting licence.
Regulated Actor: Specified fiduciaries/purpose actors
Gazette Baseline: Lines 1269–1275
Subordinate Trigger
Fourth Schedule conditions met
Applies to: Specified fiduciaries/purpose actors
Rule Prescriptions
Relief from s9(1),(3) for PartA classes or PartB purposes.
Exceptions & Provisos
Does not remove s9(2).
Official Gazette Text (Verbatim Rules Publication)
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025.
12. Exemptions from certain obligations applicable to processing of personal data of child. — (1) The
provisions of sub-sections (1) and (3) of section 9 of the Act shall not be applicable to processing of
personal data of a child by such class of Data Fiduciaries as are specified in Part A of Fourth Schedule,
subject to such conditions as are specified in the said Part.
(2) The provisions of sub-sections (1) and (3) of section 9 of the Act shall not be applicable to processing of
personal data of a child for such purposes as are specified in Part B of Fourth Schedule, subject to such
conditions as are specified in the said Part.
Mapped Operational Controls (1)
Enterprise obligations in the Control Master Matrix implementing this subordinate rule.