ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT
(as amended January 2008)
which are intended to be read, seen or heard, as the case may be, by an unlimited number of people;
“mass media service” means any service that produces mass media products, whether or
not it also disseminates them; 16
“mass media trainer” means a person who teaches or qualifies to teach journalism or mass
media studies at a tertiary educational institution;
“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];
“national event”17 means any event or occasion described as a such by the Minister by notice published in the Gazette or by advertisement in any mass media;
“news agency”18 means an organisation that collects and prepares news reports for sale and
distribution to the mass media or mass media services;
“periodically printed publication” means a regular newspaper, magazine or journal, bulletin
or any other publication with a constant name;19
“personal information” means recorded information about an identifiable person, and includes—
(a) the person's name, address or telephone number;
(b) the person's race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religious or political beliefs or
associations;
(c) the person's age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status or family status;
(d) an identifying number, symbol or other particulars assigned to that person;
(e) fingerprints, blood type or inheritable characteristics;
(f) information about a person’s health care history, including a physical or mental
disability;
(g) information about educational, financial, criminal or employment history;
(h) anyone else’s opinions about the individual; and
(i) the individual’s personal views or opinions, except if they are about someone else;
(j) personal correspondence, home and family;
“personal information bank” means a collection of personal information that is organised or
retrievable by the name of an individual or by an identifying number, symbol or other
particular assigned to that individual and includes personal images;
16
Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 5/.
17
Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 20/2007.
18
Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 20/2007.
19
Definition inserted by s. 2 of Act 5/2003.
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