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Monday, March 1st, 2010
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By default the Chief Executive Officer of a private body or the Head of a public body is the Information Officer - this is as per the Promotion of Access to Information Act. This template letter will allow you to change the default ...
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
You must comply with the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 (PAIA), because it applies to all organisations.
The word cloud on the right provides an overview of the PAI Act. From the word cloud you can see that:
the most important theme is access
the main role players are ...
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
This is an index of the legal resources related to the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 from 2006 to 10 September 2009
General
[Journal Articles]
Van Coller, EH De Jure (2006) 39:01:163 - "Transparency and Access to Documents: A General Principle of European Community Law?"
Lewis, D ILJ(UK) (2006) 35:324-328 ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
The Protection of Personal Information Bill (PPI Bill) was published on 25 August 2009. An explanatory memorandum has also been published. Ask yourself these questions:
Do you collect personal information? For example, do you ask your customer to provide you with information about them? Do you send out a personalised newsletter. ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
On the one hand, virtually every organisation processes personal information - it is an important part of business. Up until now, there have been very few laws and regulations that an organisation had to comply with. That is about to change. Organisations will still be able to process personal ...
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
There is a body of law developing relating to personal information. It is therefore critical to know exactly what personal information is. It is defined in law, but has not been interpreted by a court. It could also change in the not too distant future.
Personal information is currently defined in ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
This is an index of the legal resources related to the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 as at 6 September 2008.
General
[EH van Coller De Jure (2006) 39(1) p163 - "Transparency and Access to Documents: A General Principle of European Community Law?"]
[M Richter LDD (2005) 9/2 p219 ...
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