ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT
(as amended January 2008)
(d) shares entitling the holder or holders thereof to a majority or preponderance of
votes in the affairs of the company;
“Council”8 means the Media Council constituted in terms of section 42A;
“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; 9
“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;
“injurious allegation”10 means an allegation which⎯
(a) is false; or
(b) unlawfully infringes a person’s dignity, reputation or privacy;
“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; 11
“journalistic privilege”12 means the rights and privileges attaching to the profession of
journalism, including, but not limited to, the privileges of an accredited journalist referred to in section 78;
“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
8
Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 20/2007.
9
Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 5/2003.
10
Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 20/2007.
11
Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 5/2003.
12
Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 20/2007.
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