PROMOTION OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACT 2 OF 2000 Page 58 of 70 required for the exercise or protection of any rights; to provide that the Information Regulator, established in terms of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013, must exercise certain powers and perform certain duties and functions in terms of this Act; and to provide for matters connected therewith. Section 1 – definitions 'biometrics' means a technique of personal identification that is based on physical, physiological or behavioural characterisation including blood typing, fingerprinting, DNA analysis, retinal scanning and voice recognition; 'Human Rights Commission' - deleted 'Information Regulator' means the Information Regulator established in terms of section 39 of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013; 'personal information' means information relating to an identifiable natural person, including, but not limited to(a) information relating to the race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, national, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental health, well-being, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth of the person; (b) information relating to the education or the medical, financial, criminal or employment history of the person; (c) any identifying number, symbol, email address, physical address, telephone number, location information, online identifier or other particular assigned to the person; (d) the biometric information of the person; (e) the personal opinions, views or preferences of the person; (f) correspondence sent by the person that is implicitly or explicitly of a private or confidential nature or further correspondence that would reveal the contents of the original correspondence; (g) the views or opinions of another individual about the person; and (h) the name of the person if it appears with other personal information relating to the person or if the disclosure of the name itself would reveal information about the person, but excludes information about an individual who has been dead for more than 20 years; 'personal requester' - deleted Section 10 - Guide on how to use Act (1) The Information Regulator must update and make available the existing guide that has been compiled by the South African Human Rights Commission containing such information, in an easily comprehensible form and manner, as may reasonably be required by a person who wishes to exercise any right contemplated in this Act and the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013. (2) The guide must, without limiting the generality of subsection (1), include a description of(a) the objects of this Act and the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013; (b) the manner and form of a request for(i) access to a record of a public body contemplated in section 11; and (ii) access to a record of a private body contemplated in section 50; (c) the assistance available from the information officer of a public body in terms of this Act and the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013; (d) the assistance available from the Information Regulator in terms of this http://juta/nxt/print.asp?NXTScript=nxt/gateway.dll&NXTHost=juta&functio... 2016/12/02