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title: Add a privacy regulation related to a case
description: Add the necessary regulations that are or can be impacted by the case that has been reported. In the ServiceNow platform, regulations are captured as authority documents. Adding the regulations to the case enables you to identify which regulations are breached or violated and prevents penalties and fines.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/governance-risk-compliance/privacy-workspace/add-regulations.html
release: australia
product: Privacy Workspace
classification: privacy-workspace
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Use, Privacy Case Management, Privacy Management, Governance, Risk, and Compliance]
---

# Add a privacy regulation related to a case

Add the necessary regulations that are or can be impacted by the case that has been reported. In the ServiceNow platform, regulations are captured as authority documents. Adding the regulations to the case enables you to identify which regulations are breached or violated and prevents penalties and fines.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_privacy\_case.privacy\_case\_analyst

## About this task

After you add the regulations, you can analyse the case to determine which regulations are violated. You can then mark the reporting status of the regulations as reportable, non-reportable, or potentially reportable. By default, all the regulations present in the system are displayed and the status of the regulations is set to **To be determined**.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Privacy Management** > **Privacy Workspace**.

2.  Select the Tasks icon \(\[Omitted image "icon-tprm-ws-tasks.png"\] Alt text: Electronic signature\).

3.  Select **Cases**.

4.  Open the case for which you want to add the regulations.

5.  Select the Regulations related list.

    1.  Select **Add**.

    2.  Select the regulations to add.

    3.  Select **Add**.

6.  To set the reporting status of a regulation, select and open the regulation.

7.  On the form, fill in the fields.

<table id="table_aqy_k2x_rvb"><thead><tr><th>

Field

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Case

</td><td>

Case for which you're adding the regulation. This field is automatically set to the case name.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Reporting status

</td><td>

Status to determine if the regulation must be reported immediately, or in the future or does not require to be reported at all. The choices are as follows:-   **To be determined**: Select this option if the you're not sure if the violation must be reported.
-   **Reportable**: Select this option if the violation must be reported.
-   **Non-reportable**: Select this option if the violation does not need to be reported.
-   **Potentially reportable**: Select this option if you think that the violation can be reported in the future based on the case investigation.


</td></tr><tr><td>

Authority document

</td><td>

Authority document which forms the regulation.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Lodgement date

</td><td>

Date the regulation is reported to the regulators.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Description

</td><td>

Brief description of the regulation violation based on your analysis.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>8.  Select **Save**.


**Parent Topic:**[Using Privacy Case Management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/privacy-workspace/using-pcm.md)