# Section 42 DPDP Act 2023: Power to amend Schedule (full text)

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**CHAPTER IX: MISCELLANEOUS.** The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (Act 22 of 2023), section 42. Verbatim from the Gazette of India.

Summary (maintainers', not statutory text): Centre may amend, but cannot more than **double** any original penalty

## Section 42. Power to amend Schedule

(1) The Central Government may, by notification, amend the Schedule, subject to the restriction that no such notification
shall have the effect of increasing any penalty specified therein to more than twice of what was specified in it when
this Act was originally enacted.

(2) Any amendment notified under sub-section (1) shall have effect as if enacted in this Act and shall come into force on
the date of the notification.