The Maternity-Benefit Example
The Act's own illustration of eligibility-checking for another benefit
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Summary
The Act's own example is a maternity benefit.
The Act's own illustration of eligibility-checking for another benefit
Full transcript
The Act's own example is a maternity benefit.
X enrols on an app for a government programme,
consenting to her data for those benefits.
Pause. What else may the government do with it?
Determine her eligibility
for any other prescribed benefit.
One enrolment, checked against another scheme.
That is the illustration, in the gazette's words.
Prescribed matters: the benefit has to be one the Rules provide for.
You consent once, and eligibility travels.
s.7(b) illustration — Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 + Rules, 2025
In force from 13 May 2027