# Section 44 DPDP Act 2023: Amendments to certain Acts

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**CHAPTER IX: MISCELLANEOUS.** The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (Act 22 of 2023), section 44. Verbatim from the Gazette of India.

Summary (maintainers', not statutory text): TRAI Act s.14(c); **IT Act s.43A and s.87(2)(ob) omitted**, s.81 proviso amended; **RTI Act s.8(1)(j) replaced**

## Section 44. Amendments to certain Acts

(1) In section 14 of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 (24 of 1997), in clause (c), for sub-clauses (i)
and (ii), the following sub-clauses shall be substituted, namely:—

> "(i) the Appellate Tribunal under the Information Technology Act, 2000;
> (ii) the Appellate Tribunal under the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India Act, 2008; and
> (iii) the Appellate Tribunal under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.".

(2) The Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000) shall be amended in the following manner, namely:—
  (a) **section 43A shall be omitted;**
  (b) in section 81, in the proviso, after the words and figures "the Patents Act, 1970" (39 of 1970), the words and
  figures "or the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023" shall be inserted; and
  (c) in section 87, in sub-section (2), clause (ob) shall be omitted.

(3) In section 8 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005), in sub-section (1), for clause (j), the following
clause shall be substituted, namely:—

> "(j) information which relates to personal information;".