# Section 18 DPDP Act 2023: Establishment of Board (full text)

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**CHAPTER V: DATA PROTECTION BOARD OF INDIA.** The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (Act 22 of 2023), section 18. Verbatim from the Gazette of India.

Summary (maintainers', not statutory text): Body corporate; HQ notified by Centre

## Section 18. Establishment of Board

(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.