ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT
(SHOWING AMENDMENTS MADE BY ACT 5/2003)
(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” includes any service, medium or media consisting in the transmission of
voice, visual, data or textual messages to an unlimited number of persons, and includes
an advertising agency, publisher or, except as otherwise excluded or specially provided
for in this Act, a news agency or broadcasting licensee as defined in the Broadcasting
Services Act [ Chapter 12:06];4
“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 products” means an advertisement, the total print or part of the total print of a
separate issue of a periodically printed publication, a separate issue of a teletext programme, the total data or part of the data of any electronically transmitted material, or
audio or video recorded programme; 5
“mass media service” means any service that produces mass media products, whether or
not it also disseminates them; 6
“Minister” means the Minister responsible for information and publicity or any other Minister to whom the President may, from time to time, assign the administration of this
Act;
“National Archives” means the National Archives of Zimbabwe established in terms of the
National Archives of Zimbabwe Act [Chapter 25:06];
“periodically printed publication” means a regular newspaper, magazine or journal, bulletin
or any other publication with a constant name; 7
“personal information” means recorded information about an identifiable person, and includes—
(a) the person's name, address or telephone number;
4
Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 5/2003 (see footnote 6.
5
Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 5/2003 (see footnote 6).
6
Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 5/2003 (replacing former definition of "mass media service" or
"mass media" with three new definitions – "mass media", "mass media products" and "mass media
service").
7
Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 5/2003.
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