Is Duty to Assess Data Breaches (s 26C) legally binding?

Q: Is Duty to Assess Data Breaches (s 26C) legally binding?

Duty to Assess Data Breaches (s 26C) is binding in Singapore. Binding law. It applies to everyone in scope, whether or not anyone points at it. Where an organisation has reason to believe a data breach affecting personal data in its possession or control has occurred, it must conduct, in a reasonable and expeditious manner, an assessment of whether the breach is notifiable. Data intermediaries must notify their client organisation without undue delay.

ObligationBinding

Duty to Assess Data Breaches (s 26C)

Is this legally binding?

Binding. Binding law. It applies to everyone in scope, whether or not anyone points at it.

Where an organisation has reason to believe a data breach affecting personal data in its possession or control has occurred, it must conduct, in a reasonable and expeditious manner, an assessment of whether the breach is notifiable. Data intermediaries must notify their client organisation without undue delay.

From the source
“the organisation must conduct, in a reasonable and expeditious manner, an assessment of whether the data breach is a notifiable data breach”
s 26C

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What this connects to

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ObligationDuty to Notify Notifiable Data Breaches (s 26D)Binding
s 26D notification duty follows the s 26C assessment
SectionPart 6A, Notification of Data BreachesBinding
Structural decomposition of the source instrument

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