Ley No. 172-13 sobre Protección Integral de los Datos Personales, cross border transfer of data

Ley No. 172-13, art. 80 (cross border transfer of data)

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In force since 15 December 2013.

A cross border transfer rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 19 September 2026.

What it requires

Before transferring personal data outside the Dominican Republic, obtain the data subject's free authorization or rely on one of the law's nine specific statutory grounds for the transfer.
Confirm a cross border transfer made without the data subject's consent fits one of the law's enumerated grounds, such as medical treatment or epidemiological research, a banking or securities transaction, an international treaty or free trade agreement commitment, intelligence cooperation against organized crime or terrorism, contractual necessity, a legal requirement to safeguard the public interest or a judicial proceeding, international judicial assistance, or a request from an international organization acting on a public register.

What it reaches

Obligation class

Transfer

What this law does

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Article 80 permits the international transfer of personal data to a foreign country or international or supranational organization, where the transfer needs the data subject's consent, only in the nine cases the article lists. The first ground is the data subject's free and conscious authorization of the transfer, or a case the law otherwise permits.

The other listed grounds cover medical data exchange for treatment or epidemiological research or for reasons of public health or hygiene, banking or securities transfers under their own applicable law, a transfer agreed under an international treaty or convention including a free trade agreement the Dominican Republic is party to, cooperation between intelligence agencies against organized crime, terrorism, human trafficking, or drug trafficking, a transfer necessary to perform a contract with the data subject or precontractual measures, a transfer legally required to safeguard the public interest or to recognize, exercise, or defend a right in a judicial proceeding or requested by a tax or customs administration, a transfer to provide or request international judicial assistance, and a transfer made at the request of an international organization with a legitimate interest from a public register.

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Read the law

Official text of Ley No. 172-13, reproduced by the Instituto Nacional de la Vivienda (INVI), a Dominican government portal
Gaceta Oficial No. 10737

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