Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000 (Act No. 2 of 2000)

Regulations

Purchase

(1)	An information officer of a public body or a head of an office referred to in regulation 4(1)(a)(i)(bb), who wilfully or in a grossly negligent manner—

(a)	fails to comply with a provision of regulation 4(1)(a) or 5(a), as the case may be; or

(b)	contravenes regulation 4(3) or 5(b), as the case may be; or

is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years.

(2)	A head of a private body who wilfully or in a grossly negligent manner—

(a)	fails to comply with a provision of regulation 9(1)(a) or (2)(a); or

(b)	contravenes regulation 9(2)(b); or

(c)	charges any fee other than the fee prescribed in terms of these regulations,

is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years.

[Regulation 3A inserted by section 2 of Notice No. R. 990 of 2006)]