Section 44 Amendments to certain Acts
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- IX · Miscellaneous
44. (1) In section 14 of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997, in clause (c), for sub-clauses (i) and (ii), the following sub-clauses shall be substituted, namely:-
"(i) the Appellate TribunalDefined in section 2(a): Appellate Tribunal means the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal established under section 14 of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 under the Information Technology Act, 2000;
(ii) the Appellate TribunalDefined in section 2(a): Appellate Tribunal means the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal established under section 14 of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 under the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India Act, 2008; and
(iii) the Appellate TribunalDefined in section 2(a): Appellate Tribunal means the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal established under section 14 of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 under the Digital Personal DataDefined in section 2(n): digital personal data means personal data in digital form Protection Act, 2023.".
(2) The Information Technology Act, 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", the words and figures "or the Digital Personal DataDefined in section 2(n): digital personal data means personal data in digital form 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, in sub-section (1), for clause (j), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:-
"(j) information which relates to personal information;"