# Section 14 DPDP Act 2023: Right to nominate (full text)

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**CHAPTER III: RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF DATA PRINCIPAL.** The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (Act 22 of 2023), section 14. Verbatim from the Gazette of India.

Summary (maintainers', not statutory text): Nominee exercises rights on death or incapacity

## Section 14. Right to nominate

(1) A Data Principal shall have the right to nominate, in such manner as may be prescribed, any other
individual, who shall, in the event of death or incapacity of the Data Principal, exercise the rights of the
Data Principal in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder.

(2) For the purposes of this section, the expression "incapacity" means inability to exercise the rights of
the Data Principal under the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder due to unsoundness of mind
or infirmity of body.