GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE: [ ] Words in bold type in square brackets indicate omissions from existing enactments. Words underlined with a solid line indicate insertions in existing enactments. BILL To amend the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-related Information Act, 2002, so as to extend the period within which the information of customers must be recorded and stored; and to provide for matters connected therewith. P ARLIAMENT of the Republic of South Africa enacts, as follows:— Amendment of section 62 of Act 70 of 2002, as amended by section 4 of Act 48 of 2008 1. Section 62 of the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of 5 Communication-related Information Act, 2002, is hereby amended— (a) by the substitution in subsection (6) for paragraph (a) of the following paragraph: ‘‘(a) Notwithstanding section 40(1), an electronic communication service provider who, prior to the date of commencement of this section, 10 provides a mobile cellular electronic communications service must, [within 18 months from the said date] by 30 June 2011, record and store the information contemplated in section 40(2) in respect of all customers whose SIM-cards are activated on its system, if the information in question has not already been recorded and stored in terms 15 of section 40.’’; and (b) by the substitution in subsection (6) for paragraph (d) of the following paragraph: ‘‘(d) An electronic communication service provider shall not allow service continuation on its electronic communication system in respect 20 of any activated SIM-card if the information referred to in paragraph (b) has not been recorded and stored [at the expiry of the 18-month period contemplated in paragraph (a)] by 30 June 2011.’’. Short title 2. This Act is called the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision 25 of Communication-related Information Amendment Act, 2010.