CHAPTER V: DATA PROTECTION BOARD OF INDIA
Section 18. Establishment of Board
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (Act 22 of 2023). Verbatim text from the Gazette of India.
Section 18 in one line
Body corporate; HQ notified by Centre
Maintainers' summary, not statutory text. The verbatim section follows.
(1) 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.
(2) 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.
(3) The headquarters of the Board shall be at such place as the Central Government may notify.