Personal Data Protection Law, comprehensive regime and scope

Royal Decree No. 6/2022, Arts. 3-4, 7

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In force since 13 February 2023.

A comprehensive regime rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 29 August 2026.

What it requires

An app that collects, uses, or discloses the personal data of an individual in Oman must treat that processing as covered by the Personal Data Protection Law by default, unless it falls within one of Article 3's enumerated exclusions such as publicly available data collected lawfully.

What this law does

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Art. 3 excludes a list of processing activities entirely from the Law's scope: national security and public interest, state administrative functions, legal-obligation compliance, state economic and financial interest protection, vital-interest protection, crime detection or prevention on formal written request, contract performance, personal or family-sphere processing, de-identified research or statistics, and publicly available data (Art. 3(j), see the jurisdiction summary).

Art. 4 sets a general coverage default for anything not excluded: "Personal data is deemed protected by virtue of the provisions of this law." The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology implements the Law under Art. 7, issuing controls, procedures, licences, and a controller and processor register.

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