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National Strategic Intelligence Act, 1994 (Act No. 39 of 1994)

4. Establishment of National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee

 

 

(1) There is hereby established a National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee, which shall consist of the following persons:
(a) the Co-ordinator for Intelligence appointed under section 5(1), who shall be the Chairperson;
(b) the Director-General of the Agency;
(c) the head of the domestic division of the Agency;
(d) the head of the foreign division of the Agency;
(e) the head of the intelligence division of the South African Police Service; and
(f) the chief of the intelligence divison of the National Defence Force,

or the alternates of the said persons, and such members of departments of State who may be co-opted by Nicoc on a permanent or an ad hoc basis.

[Subsection (1) substituted by section 5 of Act No. 11 of 2013]

 

(2) It shall be the function of Nicoc—
(a) to co-ordinate the intelligence supplied by the members of the National Intelligence Structures to Nicoc and interpret national strategic intelligence for use by the State and the Cabinet for the purposes of—
(i) the detection and identification of any threat or potential threat to the national security of the Republic;
(ii) the protection and promotion of the national interests of the Republic;
(iii) advising the Cabinet;
(b) for the purposes of the functions contemplated in paragraph (a) to—
(i) co-ordinate and prioritise intelligence activities within the National Intelligence Structures;
(ii) advise the Cabinet on the intelligence policy and functions within the National Intelligence Structures;
(c) to prepare and interpret a national intelligence estimate for purposes referred to in paragraph (a) for consideration by the Cabinet;
(d) to produce and disseminate current intelligence which may have an influence on any state policy with regard to matters referred to in paragraph (a);
(e) to formulate for approval by the Cabinet, a policy relating to national strategic intelligence and, after consultation with the departments of State entrusted with the maintenance of the security of the Republic, to co-ordinate the flow of national security intelligence between such departments; and to make recommendations to the Cabinet on intelligence priorities.

 

(3) The Agency shall provide the logistical, technical and administrative support of Nicoc.