(This Directive must be complied with within a period of six months from the date of publication hereof)

In this directive, unless the context otherwise indicates, a word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in the Act has the meaning so assigned, and-

"Act"

means the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act, 2002 (Act No. 70 of 2002);

"buffer"

means the temporary storing of communication-related information in case the necessary telecommunication connection to route information to the IC is temporarily unavailable, and "buffered" has a similar meaning;

"fixed line operator"

means a fixed line operator as defined in section 1 of the Telecommunications Act, 1996 (Act No. 103 of 1996), including any telecommunications service provider who has fixed line technology deployed in its telecommunications system, and is herein referred to as a "FLO";

"handover interface"

means a physical and logical interface across which the results of a direction or request are delivered from a FLO to the IC;

"identity"

means a technical label which may represent the origin or destination of any telecommunications traffic, as a rule clearly identified by a logical or virtual telecommunications identity number (such as a personal telephone number or subscriber number) assigned to a physical access;

"Interception Centre"

means an interception centre established in terms of section 32 of the Act and is herein referred to as the "IC";

"interception measure"

means a technical measure, which facilitates the interception of telecommunications traffic pursuant to the Act;

"interception target"

means the customer whose indirect communications are to be intercepted, or whose real-time communication-related information or archived communication-related information is to be routed by a FLO to an IC or provided to a law enforcement agency, pursuant to a direction or request;

"quality of service"

means the quality specification of a telecommunications channel, system, virtual channel, computer-telecommunications session, etc. Quality of service may be measured, for example, in terms of signal-to-noise ratio, bit error rate, message throughput rate or call blocking probability;

"result of interception"

means the content of an indirect communication which is routed by a FLO to the IC pursuant to an interception directive or request;

"request"

means a request in terms of section 7 of the Act;

"target identity"

means the identity associated with a target service (see below) used by the interception target; and

"target service"

means a telecommunications service associated with an interception target and usually specified in a direction or request.