ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT
(SHOWING AMENDMENTS MADE BY ACT 5/2003)
(d) shares entitling the holder or holders thereof to a majority or preponderance of
votes in the affairs of the company;
“dissemination”, in relation to any mass media product, includes the sale, subscription, delivery, diffusion or distribution of periodically printed publications, audio-recorded
programmes, electronically distributed information or teletext programmes; 1
“excluded information” means records excluded from the application of this Act in terms
of section four;
“Fund” means the Media and Information Fund established by section forty-three;
“head”, in relation to a public body, means—
(a) the person designated as the head of a public body in the second column of the
Second Schedule; or
(b) any other person whom the Minister may, from time to time, designate as the head
of a public body for the purposes of this Act;
“journalist” means a person who gathers, collects, edits or prepares news, stories, materials
and information for a mass media service, whether as an employee of the service or as
a freelancer; 2
“judicial administration record” means a record containing information relating to a presiding officer or a justice of the peace, including—
(a) scheduling of presiding officers and trials;
(b) the content of judicial training programmes;
(c) statistics of judicial activity prepared by or for a judge;
“law enforcement” includes—
(a) policing, including criminal intelligence operations; or
(b) investigations that lead to a penalty or sanction being imposed; or
(c) proceedings that result in a penalty or sanction being imposed; or
(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; 3
“local government body” means—
1
Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 5/2003.
2
Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 5/2003.
3
Definition substituted by s. 2 of Act 5/2003.
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