Spatial Data Infrastructure Act, 2003 (Act No. 54 of 2003)

1. Definitions

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In this Act, unless the context indicates otherwise—

"base data set"

means those themes of spatial information which have been captured or collected by a data custodian;

"Committee"

means the Committee for Spatial Information established by section 5;

"data custodian"

means—

(a)	an organ of state: or

(b)	an independent contractor or person engaged in the exercise of a public power or performance of a public function,

which captures, maintains, manages, integrates, distributes or uses spatial information;

"data set"

means an identifiable collection of related spatial information;

"data vendor"

means a person who supplies spatial information on behalf of a data custodian;

"Department"

means the national department responsible for Land Affairs;

"Director-General"

means the Director-General of the Department;

"features"

means geographic phenomena having common characteristics;

"field"

means an area of a database record into which a particular item of data is entered;

"maintenance"

when used in relation to spatial information, means—

(a)	measures taken to ensure that spatial information conforms to the standards and prescriptions determined in terms of this Act; or

(b)	the updating or modification of spatial information to ensure that it remains usable and reliable;

"member"

means a member of the Committee;

"metadata"

means a description of the content, quality, condition and other characteristics of spatial information;

"Minister"

means the national Minister responsible for Land Affairs;

"organ of state"

means an organ of state as defined in section 239 of the Constitution;

"prescribe"

means prescribe by regulation;

"quality"

means the degree to which spatial information which has been captured or collected satisfies stated or implied needs, and includes geographic information about lineage, completeness, currency, logical consistency and accuracy of the spatial information;

"record"

means a record as defined in section 1 of the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000 (Act No. 2 of 2000);

"SASDI"

means the South African Spatial Data Infrastructure established by section 3;

"spatial information"

means information about spatial objects or features and their attributes;

"this Act"

includes any regulation made or notice published in terms of this Act;

"user"

means any person who has obtained access to spatial information in order to use such information.