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

Part 2 : Access to Records of Public Bodies

Chapter 3 : Manner of Access

32. Reports to the Information Regulator

[Section 32 heading substituted by the Schedule: Laws Amended by Section 10, Protection of Personal Information Act 2013 (Act No. 4 of 2013), Notice No. 912, dated 26 November 2013]

 

The information officer of each public body must annually submit to the Information Regulator a report stating in relation to the public body

(a) the number of requests for access received;
(b) the number of requests for access granted in full;
(c) the number of requests for access granted in terms of section 46;
(d) the number of requests for access refused in full and refused partially and the number of times each provision of this Act was relied on to refuse access in full or partial;
(e) the number of cases in which the periods stipulated in section 25(1) were extended in terms of section 26(1);
(f) the number of internal appeals lodged with the relevant authority and the number of cases in which, as a result of an internal appeal, access was given to a record;
(g) the number of internal appeals which were lodged on the ground that a request for access was regarded as having been refused in terms of section 27;
(h) the number of applications to a court which were lodged on the ground that an internal appeal was regarded as having been dismissed in terms of section 77(7); and
(i) such other matters as may be prescribed.

 

[Section 32 substituted by section 30 of Act No. 42 of 2001]