Personal Data Protection (Do Not Call Registry) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

No. S 67

Personal Data Protection Act 2012

(ACT 26 OF 2012)

Personal Data Protection
(Do Not Call Registry) (Amendment)
Regulations 2021

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 65 of the Personal Data Protection Act 2012, the Personal Data Protection Commission, with the approval of the Minister for Communications and Information, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Personal Data Protection (Do Not Call Registry) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 and come into operation on 1 February 2021.

Deletion of regulation 11

2. Regulation 11 of the Personal Data Protection (Do Not Call Registry) Regulations 2013 (G.N. No. S 709/2013) is deleted.

Deletion and substitution of Part V and new Part VA

3. Part V of the Personal Data Protection (Do Not Call Registry) Regulations 2013 is deleted and the following Parts substituted therefor:

“PART V

PRESCRIBED DURATION AND PERIOD

Prescribed duration for section 43(2)(a) of Act

15. For the purposes of section 43(2)(a) of the Act, the prescribed duration before sending a specified message on or after 1 February 2021 is 21 days.

Prescribed period for section 43(2)(b) of Act

16. For the purposes of section 43(2)(b) read with section 43(3) of the Act, the prescribed period in relation to the relevant information on or after 1 February 2021 is 21 days.

Prescribed period for section 47(3) of Act

17. The prescribed period for the purposes of section 47(3) of the Act is, where a person receives a notice of withdrawal of consent for the sending of a specified message on or after 1 February 2021, 21 days after the date on which the person receives the notice.

PART VA

CHECKERS

Requirements for checkers

17A. For the purposes of section 43A(2)(b) of the Act, a checker must, when providing applicable information to another person (P) on or after 1 February 2021, also provide the following information to P:

(a)	the date (on or after 1 February 2021) on which the checker received the reply from the Commission in response to the checker’s application under section 40(2) of the Act that included the applicable information;
(b)	the date after which the applicable information ceases to be valid, being 21 days after the date mentioned in paragraph (a).”.

Saving and transitional provisions

4. Despite regulation 3 —

(a)	regulations 15 and 16 of the Personal Data Protection (Do Not Call Registry) Regulations 2013 as in force immediately before 1 February 2021 continue to apply in relation to a specified message sent before that date; and
(b)	regulation 17 of the Personal Data Protection (Do Not Call Registry) Regulations 2013 as in force immediately before 1 February 2021 continues to apply in relation to a notice of withdrawal of consent received before that date.

[G.N. No. S 331/2015]

Made on 28 January 2021.

CHAN YENG KIT

Chairman,
Info-communications Media
Development Authority,
Singapore.

[AG/LEGIS/SL/227A/2020/2 Vol. 1]

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