PROMOTION OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACT 2 OF 2000 Page 44 of 70 (aa) an individual in accordance with a witness protection scheme; (bb) the safety of the public, or any part of the public; or (cc) the security of property contemplated in subparagraph (i) (aa), (bb) or (cc). 67 Mandatory protection of records privileged from production in legal proceedings The head of a private body must refuse a request for access to a record of the body if the record is privileged from production in legal proceedings unless the person entitled to the privilege has waived the privilege. 68 Commercial information of private body (1) Subject to subsection (2), the head of a private body may refuse a request for access to a record of the body if the record(a) contains trade secrets of the private body; (b) contains financial, commercial, scientific or technical information, other than trade secrets, of the private body, the disclosure of which would be likely to cause harm to the commercial or financial interests of the body; (c) contains information, the disclosure of which could reasonably be expected(i) (ii) (d) to put the private body at a disadvantage in contractual or other negotiations; or to prejudice the body in commercial competition; or is a computer program, as defined in section 1 (1) of the Copyright Act, 1978 (Act 98 of 1978), owned by the private body, except insofar as it is required to give access to a record to which access is granted in terms of this Act. (2) A record may not be refused in terms of subsection (1) insofar as it consists of information about the results of any product or environmental testing or other investigation supplied by the private body or the results of any such testing or investigation carried out by or on behalf of the private body and its disclosure would reveal a serious public safety or environmental risk. [Sub-s. (2) substituted by s. 43 of Act 42 of 2001 (wef 7 December 2001).] (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the results of any product or environmental testing or other investigation do not include the results of preliminary testing or other investigation conducted for the purpose of developing methods of testing or other investigation. 69 Mandatory protection of research information of third party, and protection of research information of private body (1) The head of a private body must refuse a request for access to a record of the body if the record contains information about research being or to be carried out by or on behalf of a third party, the disclosure of which would be likely to expose(a) the third party; (b) a person that is or will be carrying out the research on behalf of the third party; or (c) the subject matter of the research, to serious disadvantage. (2) The head of a private body may refuse a request for access to a record of the body if the record contains information about research being or to be carried out by or on behalf of the private body, the disclosure of which would be likely to expose- http://juta/nxt/print.asp?NXTScript=nxt/gateway.dll&NXTHost=juta&functio... 2016/12/02