(in this section, the requester and person referred to paragraphs (a) and (b), respectively, are referred to as
the 'relevant person'), is of the opinion that the disclosure of the record to the relevant person might cause
serious harm to his or her physical or mental health, or well-being, the information officer may, before
giving access in terms of section 29, consult with a health practitioner who, subject to subsection (2), has
been nominated by the relevant person.
(2)
If the relevant person is(a)
under the age of 16 years, a person having parental responsibilities for the
relevant person must make the nomination contemplated in subsection (I); or
(b)
incapable of managing his or her affairs, a person appointed by the court to
manage those affairs must make that nomination.
(3)(a)
If, after being given access to the record concerned, the health practitioner
consulted in terms of subsection ( I) is of the opinion that the disclosure of the record to the
relevant person would be likely to cause serious harm to his or her physical or mental health, or well-being,
the information officer may only give access to the record if the requester
proves to the satisfaction of the information officer that adequate provision is made for such counselling or
arrangements as are reasonably practicable before, during or after the disclosure of the record to limit,
alleviate or avoid such harm to the relevant person.
(b)
Before access to the record is so given to the requester, the person responsible for such
counselling or arrangements must be given access to the record.
31 Language of access
A requester whose request for access to a record of a public body has been granted must, if the record(a)
exists in the language that the requester prefers, be given access in that language; or
(b)
does not exist in the language so preferred or the requester has no preference
or has not indicated a preference, be given access in any language the record exists in.
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Reports to Human Rights Commission
The information officer of each public body must annually submit to the Human Rights commission a
report stating in relations 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 (I) were extended in terms of
section 26 (I);
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;
(12) 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;
(g)