Although the Act itself did not set a fixed compliance date, the government indicated that rules and subordinate regulations would be implemented by the end of 2023 or early 2024. By December 2023, officials announced that the draft implementing Rules for the DPDP Act were almost ready to be issued. (The general elections in May 2024 caused some delay in finalizing the framework, but the newly formed government reiterated its commitment to put the law into effect swiftly.)