Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01258:clause:4_4:p24
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Provision Reference: sch 4 cl 4 (pt 24/75)
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the content for the energy sector.
      When requested in accordance with this Part, a data holder:
             • must, subject to an exception outlined in this Part, disclose required product data; and
             • may, but is not required to, disclose voluntary product data.
      In either case, the data is disclosed to the person who made the request, in machine‑readable form and in accordance with the data standards. A data holder must not impose conditions, restrictions or limitations of any kind on the use of the disclosed data.
      A fee cannot be charged for the disclosure of required product data, but could be charged for the disclosure of voluntary product data.

2.2  Making product data requests—flowchart
  The following is a flowchart for how product data requests are made:

2.3  Product data requests
 (1) A person may:
 (a) using the data holder's product data request service; and
 (b) in accordance with the data standards;
  request a data holder to disclose some or all of the required product data or voluntary product data that it holds.
Note: In the banking sector, these rules will progressively permit product data requests to be made to a broader range of data holders, and in relation to a broader range of CDR data, according to the timetable set out in Part 6 of Schedule 3.
 In the energy sector, the AER and the Victorian agency are designated data holders for all the relevant product data under the designation instrument.
 (2) Such a request is a product data request.
Note: A fee cannot be charged for making a product data request.

2.4  Disclosing product data in response to product data request
 (1) This rule applies if a data holder has received a product data request.
 (2) The data holder may disclose any requested voluntary product data to the requester.
Note: See rule 1.7 for the meaning of "voluntary product data".  See also:
                  for the banking sector—clause 3.1 of Schedule 3;
                  for the energy sector—clause 3.1 of Schedule 4.
 (2A) If the data holder discloses any requested voluntary product data to the requester, it must do so:
 (a) through its product data request service; and
 (b) in accordance with the data standards.
Note: This subrule is a civil penalty provision (see rule 9.8).
 (3) The data holder must, subject to subrule (4) and rule 2.5:
 (a) disclose the requested required product data to the requester:
 (i) through its product data request service; and
 (ii) in accordance with the data standards; and
 (b) include in the disclosed data any required product data that is:
 (i) the subject of the product data request; and
 (ii) contained:
 (A) on the data holder's website; or
 (B) in a disclosure document that relates