Electronic Transactions Act, 2008 Act  772 to the individual, but excluding the name of the other individual where it appears with the views or opinions of the other individual; and (i) the name of the individual where it appears with other personal information relating to the individual or where the disclosure of the name itself would reveal information about the individual, but excludes information about an individual who has been dead for more than twenty years; “plain text version” means a programme or original data before it has been transformed or scrambled to an unreadable or incomprehensible format; “prescribe” means prescribe by regulation under this Act; “programme or computer programme” means data representing instructions or statements which when executed in a computer, causes the computer to perform a function; “programme or data” includes a reference to a programme or data held in any removable storage medium which is for the time being in the computer; “public agency” means a body set-up by Government in the public interest with or without an Act of Parliament; (a) department of central government or a department in local government; or (b) any other functionary or institution when (i)   exercising a power or discharging a duty in terms of the Constitution; or (ii)  exercising a power or performing a function in terms of any legislation; “public key” means the key which is available to the public for purposes of the encryption of an electronic key which is linked to a private decryption key held exclusively by the issuer of the key available to the public; “public interest” includes a right or advantage which enures or is intended to enure to the general benefit of the people of this country; “registrar” means an entity which is licensed by the Registry under this Act; 63