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DPDP Rules, 2025

Rule 1Short title and commencement

The text of Rule 1 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, as published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II — Section 3(i).

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Rule 1 as published in the Gazette of India

(1) These rules may be called the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025.

(2) Rules 1, 2 and 17 to 21 shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

(3) Rule 4 shall come into force one year after the date of publication of this Gazette.

(4) Rules 3, 5 to 16, 22 and 23 shall come into force eighteen months after the date of publication of this Gazette.

Source. Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 (G.S.R. 846(E), notified 13 November 2025), published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II — Section 3(i). Reproduced verbatim. This page is a reference, not legal advice, and no advisor–client relationship arises from reading it.

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The authoritative text is the one published in the Gazette of India.