Chapter 5 · Data Protection Board of India
Section 18 - Establishment of Board
Creating the Data Protection Board of IndiaThis section creates the regulator - the Data Protection Board of India.
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This section creates the regulator - the Data Protection Board of India. It is set up as a body corporate, which means it has a legal personality of its own: it can hold property, enter contracts, and sue or be sued in its own name. Its headquarters sits wherever the Central Government notifies.
Key points
- Establishes the Data Protection Board of India as the regulator.
- It is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal.
- It can hold property, contract, and sue or be sued in its own name.
Official section text
Section 18. Establishment of Board.
With effect from such date as the Central Government may, by notification, appoint, there shall be established, for the purposes of this Act, a Board to be called the Data Protection Board of India.
The Board shall be a body corporate by the name aforesaid, having perpetual succession and a common seal, with power, subject to the provisions of this Act, to acquire, hold and dispose of property, both movable and immovable, and to contract and shall, by the said name, sue or be sued.
The headquarters of the Board shall be at such place as the Central Government may notify.