The Information Regulator looks to streamline compliance, as it prepares an online portal for PAIA annual report submissions.
The Information Regulator ’s online portal for PAIA submissions will be live from 1 May and close on 30 June.for public and private bodies to submit their Promotion of Access to Information Act annual reports will be live on 1 May.The platform, it states, is designed to streamline organisations’ compliance journey, making it easier to meet regulatory requirements and protect sensitive data.
Furthermore, the heads of private bodies or deputy information officers are required to submit to the regulator their PAIA annual reports about requests for access to records received and processed by the private body. “The purpose of the report is to give an account of the number of requests for access received, access granted in full, access granted in terms of section 46 , access refused fully or partially, cases extended, internal appeals to relevant authority, and the number of internal appeals that were refused on the ground that an internal appeal was regarded as having been dismissed.”
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