(c)
in the case of any other public body, means the chief executive officer, or equivalent officer, of that
public body or the person who is acting as such;
‘internal appeal’ means an internal appeal to the relevant authority in terms of section 74;
‘international organisation’ means an international organisation(a)
of states; or
(b)
established by the governments of states;
‘Minister means the Cabinet member responsible for the administration of justice;
‘notice’ means notice in writing and ‘notify’ and ‘notified’ have corresponding meanings;
‘objects of this Act’ means the objects of this Act referred to in section 9;
‘official’, in relation to a public or private body, means(a)
any person in the employ (permanently or temporarily and full-time or
part-time) of the public or private body. as the case may be, including the head of the body, in his or
her capacity as such; or
(b)
a member of the public or private body, in his or her capacity as such;
‘person’ means a natural person or a juristic person;
‘personal information’ means information about an identifiable individual, including,
but not limited to(a)
information relating to the race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, national, ethnic or social
origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental health,well-being, disability, religion,
conscience, belief, culture, language and birth of the individual;
(b)
information relating to the education or the medical, criminal or employment history of the
individual or information relating to financial transactions in which the individual has been
involved;
(c)
any identifying number, symbol or other particular assigned to the individual;
(d)
the address, fingerprints or blood type of the individual;
(e)
the personal opinions, views or preferences of the individual, except where they are about another
individual or about a proposal for a grant, an award or a prize to be made to another individual;
(f)
correspondence sent by the individual that is implicitly or explicitly of a private or confidential
nature or further correspondence that would reveal the contents of the original correspondence;
(g)
the views or opinions of another individual about the individual;
(h)
the views or opinions of another individual about a proposal for a grant, an award or a prize to be
made to the individual, but excluding the name of the other individual where it appears with the
views or opinions of the other individual; and