Solomon IslandsTelecommunications Act 2009, Security Safeguards for Consumer Information
s. 72(1)(b), Telecommunications Act 2009 (Solomon Islands)
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In force.
A sector security regimes rule binding private bodies.
As of 19 September 2026.
What it requires
- This reaches you where you operate as a telecommunications service provider licensed in Solomon Islands; it does not reach a business with no such licence.
- Apply appropriate security safeguards to prevent the collection, use, maintenance, or disclosure of a consumer's information.
- Expect a contravention of this duty to be prosecutable as a criminal offence under s. 120(1)(j), or instead pursued as a civil violation under Part 18, but not both for the same conduct.
- Expect a consumer who sustains loss or damage from your failure to safeguard their information to be able to sue you in court under s. 117 to recover that loss, where the matter is proceeded as a violation rather than an offence.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Private right of actionYes
Criminal exposure note
Contravening the security-safeguards duty in s. 72(1)(b) is an offence under s. 120(1)(j), which criminalises a contravention of section 72(1) as a whole (both paragraph (a)'s consent duty and paragraph (b)'s safeguards duty); on conviction a natural person is liable to a fine not exceeding 50,000 penalty units for a first offence and 100,000 penalty units for any second or subsequent offence, or to imprisonment for up to seven years, and a company or other entity is liable to a fine not exceeding 500,000 penalty units for a first offence and 2,500,000 penalty units for any second or subsequent offence (s. 121). Section 119 bars pursuing the same contravention as both an offence under Part 19 and a civil violation under Part 18.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Telecommunications Commission of Solomon Islands
Settledness
No Telecommunications Commission order, direction, or regulation implementing s. 72(1)(b) was found in the Commission's own published Legislation, National Policy, or Technical Reports library, and no reported enforcement action under s. 117 or s. 120(1)(j) for this duty was found.
- As of
- 19 September 2026
- Open questions
- Has the Telecommunications Commission issued an order, direction, or regulation specifying what appropriate security safeguards must include under s. 72(1)(b)?
- Has any person brought a civil action under s. 117 for a failure to apply security safeguards under s. 72(1)(b), and with what result?
What it reaches
Obligation class
Security
What this law does
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Section 72(1) of Part 11 (Relations with Consumers) binds a telecommunications service provider with two duties under the same subsection: paragraph (a) bars collecting, using, maintaining, or disclosing a consumer's information without consent, already researched as this jurisdiction's privacy row, and paragraph (b), researched here, separately requires the service provider to apply appropriate security safeguards to prevent the collection, use, maintenance, or disclosure of that information.
Section 120(1)(j) of Part 19 makes a contravention of section 72(1), covering both paragraphs, a criminal offence, and section 121 sets the penalty. Section 113(2) of Part 18 separately makes any contravention of the Act, including of paragraph (b), a civil violation. Section 117 lets a person who sustained loss or damage from a violation sue in court to recover an amount equal to that loss from the person who committed or is vicariously liable for it.
Section 119 bars proceeding against the same contravention as both an offence and a violation. The Telecommunications Commission of Solomon Islands enforces the Act generally, including this duty, and no order, direction, or regulation implementing paragraph (b)'s safeguards standard was found in the Commission's own published library. Section 1 sets the Act's own commencement as a date the Minister appoints by notice in the Gazette, and the specific commencement notice is not reproduced here.
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