# Section 26 DPDP Act 2023: Powers of Chairperson (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 26. Verbatim from the Gazette of India.

Summary (maintainers', not statutory text): Superintendence, authorising scrutiny, allocating proceedings to Members

## Section 26. Powers of Chairperson

The Chairperson shall exercise the following powers, namely:—

(a) general superintendence and giving direction in respect of all administrative matters of the Board;

(b) authorise any officer of the Board to scrutinise any intimation, complaint, reference or correspondence addressed
to the Board; and

(c) authorise performance of any of the functions of the Board and conduct any of its proceedings, by an individual
Member or groups of Members and to allocate proceedings among them.