Reproduced by Sabinet Online in terms of Government Printer’s Copyright Authority No. 10505 dated 02 February 1998 110 No. 37067 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26 November 2013 Act No. 4 of 2013 Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 110 No. and year of law Short title Extent of repeal or amendment (b) omission of the definition of ‘‘Human Rights Commission’’; (c) substitution for the definition of ‘‘personal information’’ of the following definition: ‘‘ ‘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;’’; (d) omission of the definition of ‘‘personal requester’’; and (e) insertion after the definition of ‘‘record’’ of the following definition: ‘‘ ‘Information Regulator’ means the Information Regulator established in terms of section 39 of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013;’’.

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