Registration and obligations of Consent Manager
- Status
- Upcoming
- Applies from
- 13 Nov 2026Rule 1(3)
- Penalty
- Up to Rs 50 croreAct, Schedule, item 7
- Binds
- Consent Managers
In plain English
Creates the registration regime for Consent Managers, the platforms through which a person can give, manage, review and withdraw consent across many Data Fiduciaries. A company that meets the conditions in Part A of the First Schedule (incorporated in India, net worth of at least Rs 2 crore, sound management, independence from Data Fiduciaries, certified interoperable platform) may apply to the Board, which can inquire, register or reject with reasons, and must publish registered Consent Managers on its website.
Registered Consent Managers carry the obligations in Part B of the First Schedule. The Board can direct a Consent Manager to fix non-adherence, and after a hearing can suspend or cancel its registration and give directions to protect Data Principals. It can also call for information.
What you must do
If you plan to operate a Consent Manager, check the Part A conditions now; registration opens 13 Nov 2026 and the Board publishes the application particulars on its website.
If you are a Data Fiduciary, prepare to receive consent given through a registered Consent Manager and to honour withdrawals routed through it (s. 6(7) of the Act).
Expect published particulars of registered Consent Managers on the Board's website; only those count as Consent Managers under the Act.
Note
Rule 4 is the one Rule with its own commencement date, one year after the Rules were published. Everything else that binds companies starts six months later, on 13 May 2027.
Gazette text · Rule 4A person who fulfils the conditions for registration of Consent Managers set out in Part A of First Schedule may apply to the Board for registration as a Consent Manager by furnishing such particulars and such other information and documents as the Board may publish in this behalf on its website.
- (1)A person who fulfils the conditions for registration of Consent Managers set out in Part A of First Schedule may apply to the Board for registration as a Consent Manager by furnishing such particulars and such other information and documents as the Board may publish in this behalf on its website.
- (2)On receipt of such application, the Board may make such inquiry as it may deem fit to satisfy itself regarding fulfilment of the conditions set out in Part A of First Schedule, and if it—
- (a)is satisfied, register the applicant as a Consent Manager, under intimation to the applicant, and publish on its website the particulars of such Consent Manager; or
- (b)is not satisfied, reject the application and communicate the reasons for the rejection to the applicant.
- (a)
- (3)The Consent Manager shall have obligations as specified in Part B of First Schedule.
- (4)If the Board is of the opinion that a Consent Manager is not adhering to the conditions and obligations under this rule, it may, after giving an opportunity of being heard, inform the Consent Manager of such non-adherence and direct the Consent Manager to take measures to ensure adherence.
- (5)The Board may, if it is satisfied that it is necessary so to do in the interests of Data Principals, after giving the Consent Manager an opportunity of being heard, by order, for reasons to be recorded in writing, —
- (a)suspend or cancel the registration of such Consent Manager; and
- (b)give such directions as it may deem fit to that Consent Manager, to protect the interests of the Data Principals.
- (a)
- (6)The Board may, for the purposes of this rule, require the Consent Manager to furnish such information as the Board may call for.
Source: Gazette of India, G.S.R. 846(E), 13 Nov 2025 (MeitY copy)
Act sections and tools that apply
Source: Gazette of India, G.S.R. 846(E), 13 Nov 2025 (MeitY copy) · Change log