ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT
(as amended January 2008)
(d) control of immigration; or
(e) national defence and security; or
(f) maintenance of public order;
“legal representative” means—
(a) the liquidator of a company;
(b) the representative recognised by law of any person who has died, become insolvent
or bankrupt or assigned his estate, is an infant or a minor, is of unsound mind or is
otherwise under a disability; 13
“local government body” means—
(a) a municipality as defined in the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 29:15];
(b) a council as defined in the Rural District Councils Act [Chapter 29:13];
(c) a catchment council or subcatchment council established in terms of the Water Act
[Chapter 20:24];
(d) a board of cemetery trustees established under the Cemeteries Act [Chapter 5:04];
(e) any board , committee, commission, panel, agency or corporation that is created or
owned by a body referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d) and all the members or officers of which are appointed or chosen by or under the authority of that body;
"mass media"14 means—
(a) newspapers, magazines, and other periodically printed publications; and
(b) a broadcasting service as defined in the Broadcasting Services Act [Chapter
12:06], insofar as such service employs a journalist requiring to be accredited in
terms of section 79(2);
which are intended to be read, seen or heard, as the case may be, by an unlimited number of people;
“mass media owner” means⎯
(a) in the case of a mass media service company, the person who holds a controlling
interest in the company; or
(b) in the case of a mass media service that is not a company, the person who owns or
co-owns the service;
“mass media product”15 means⎯
(a) a separate issue of a newspaper, magazine or other periodically printed publication; and
(b) a programme broadcast by a broadcasting service as defined in the Broadcasting
Services Act [Chapter 12:06];
13
Definition substituted by s. 2 of Act 5/2003.
14
Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 20/2007.
15
Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 20/2007.
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