Legal Compliance
What is Legal Compliance?
Adherence to all applicable laws and statutes that govern an organization's operations, including civil, criminal, and administrative law.
Terms that appear alongside legal compliance
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as legal compliance. The number is how many controls name both.
- compliance 11 shared controls
- governance 3 shared controls
- remediation 2 shared controls
- risk assessment 2 shared controls
- accountability 2 shared controls
- consent 2 shared controls
- integrity 2 shared controls
- audit 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern legal compliance
What the standards actually require on legal compliance
Requirements naming legal compliance across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Management manages legal risk from failing to comply with statutes and regulations, with the bylaws and agreements of card networks, clearing houses and counterparties, and with consumer protection law such as GLBA, Truth in Lending, Regulation CC and Regulati...
ffiec-it-examination-handbook::RPS-07 · Legal (Compliance) Risk (Retail Payment Systems) →Applicable security and privacy legal requirements are identified and kept current, reflected in rules, and compliance reviewed at least annually (including liability insurance for personal information damages, security disclosure, location service registratio...
south-korea-isms-p::1.4.1 · Review of legal compliance →Documented procedures provide for regular monitoring and measurement of the key characteristics of operations and activities with the potential for illness or injury, and the effectiveness of these measures is evaluated.
as-nzs-4801-2001-occupational-health-and-safety-management-systems-superseded-edition::4.5.1.1 · Monitor and measure key OHS characteristics, calibrate equipment, and monitor performance and legal compliance →The organisation states whether it checks that it and its suppliers comply with mandatory standards and forest regulations in producing and sourcing countries, the aspects of legislation considered (land use rights, environmental protection, rules on forests,...
cdp-formerly-carbon-disclosure-project::8.14 · Question 8.14: Forests: legal compliance →Put systems in place that keep the company in compliance with the law that applies to it. ICMM notes that members already comply; the expectation is that they can show stakeholders robust systems assuring it.
icmm-mining-principles-2024-update::1.1 · 1.1 Legal compliance systems →In every regulated contract the contractor warrants the subject work will be carried out in accordance with all relevant laws and legal requirements, including the Building Act 1975, and in an appropriate and skilful way with reasonable care and skill.
queensland-building-and-construction-commission-act-1991::sch1b-21-22 · Sch 1B ss 21 and 22 Warranties of legal compliance and of care and skill →Questions people ask about legal compliance
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