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No. 37067
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26 November 2013
Act No. 4 of 2013
Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013
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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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