56BZBAccredited persons must only initiate CDR actions in accordance with CDR consumers’ valid requests etc.

56BZB Accredited persons must only initiate CDR actions in accordance with CDR consumers’ valid requests etc.

A person contravenes this section if:

(a) the person is an accredited person; and

(b) the person’s accreditation authorises the person to initiate a type of CDR action; and

(c) the person purports to give a valid instruction:

(i) for the performance of a CDR action of that type; and

(ii) to an action service provider for a CDR action of that type; and

(iii) on behalf of a CDR consumer for the CDR action; and

(d) when purporting to give that instruction:

(i) there was no valid request by the consumer, made in accordance with the consumer data rules, for the giving of that instruction; or

(ii) the person had failed to comply with a requirement in the consumer data rules for giving a valid instruction for a CDR action of that type.

Note: For enforcement, see Part VI (including section 76 for an order for payment of a pecuniary penalty).