Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, Section 38(2) (Personal data deferred to statute)

Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (2002), Section 38(2)

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In force since 20 May 2002.

A comprehensive regime rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 19 September 2026.

What it requires

Treat Timor-Leste as having no personal-data-protection statute: the Constitution defers the concept of personal data and the general conditions for processing it to a law that has never been enacted, so there is no defined scope, no registration duty, no supervisory authority and no procedure to comply with.
Rely on Section 38's own two operative rules, the access right and the sensitive-category consent bar, rather than on a statutory definition of personal data, because none exists to scope a Timor-Leste deployment against.

What it reaches

Obligation class

Governance

What this law does

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Section 38(2) defers the concept of personal data, and the conditions applicable to processing it generally, to a law that Timor-Leste has never enacted. There is therefore no statutory definition of personal data, no lawful-basis scheme, no registration duty, no supervisory authority and no procedural mechanism behind the two operative rules Section 38 does state.

Adjacent Section 36 (honour and privacy) and Section 37 (inviolability of home and correspondence) protect related interests but create no personal-data-specific duty.

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Read the law

Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, official government text (timor-leste.gov.tl)

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