Legal Register
RULE-22 Tranche 3 (13 May 2027) — Core Operating Cliff
Status: scheduled, not yet operative
Rule 22: Appeal
Not a fiduciary control-testing rule.
Regulated Actor: Aggrieved appellant; Tribunal
Gazette Baseline: Lines 1384–1399
Subordinate Trigger
Appeal
Applies to: Aggrieved appellant; Tribunal
Rule Prescriptions
Digital form/fee; fee waiver/reduction discretion; natural justice; digital office.
Exceptions & Provisos
CPC not binding; powers preserved.
Official Gazette Text (Verbatim Rules Publication)
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025.
22. Appeal to Appellate Tribunal. — (1) Any person aggrieved by an order or direction of the Board,
may prefer an appeal before the Appellate Tribunal, it shall be filed in digital form as the Appellate
Tribunal may decide.
(2) An appeal filed with the Appellate Tribunal shall be accompanied by fee of like amount as is applicable
in respect of an appeal filed under the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 (24 of 1997),
unless reduced or waived by the Chairperson of the Appellate Tribunal at her discretion, and the same shall
be payable digitally using the Unified Payments Interface or such other payment system authorised by the
Reserve Bank of India.
(3) The Appellate Tribunal—
(a) shall not be bound by the procedure laid down by the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908),
but shall be guided by the principles of natural justice and, subject to the provisions of the Act, may
regulate its own procedure; and
(b) shall function as a digital office which, without prejudice to its power to summon and enforce the
attendance of any person and examine her on oath, may adopt techno-legal measures to conduct
proceedings in a manner that does not require physical presence of any individual.
Mapped Operational Controls (1)
Enterprise obligations in the Control Master Matrix implementing this subordinate rule.