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services, policing, State security and includes the National Director of Public
Prosecutions.
Establishment and control of National Critical Information Infrastructure Fund
59.
(1)
There is hereby established a fund to be known as the National
Critical Information Infrastructure Fund.
(2)
(a)
The Fund must be credited with—
moneys appropriated by Parliament for the National Critical Information Structure
Fund;
(b)
interest derived from the investment of money in the Fund;
(c)
any costs recovered in terms of section 58(9); and
(d)
money accruing to the Fund from any other source.
(3)
(i)
(a)
The money in the Fund must be utilised—
for purposes of section 58(9) on behalf of the owner or person who fails or
refuses to take steps referred to in section 58; or
(ii)
to implement disaster management measures in respect of National Critical
Information Infrastructures in disaster situations.
(b)
The Cabinet member responsible for State security must,
before the Fund can be utilised for the purposes contemplated in paragraph (a)(ii),
obtain the permission of the Cabinet member responsible for national financial matters.
(4)
The Director-General: State Security is the accounting officer of the
Fund in terms of the Public Finance Management Act, 1999 (Act No. 1 of 1999).
(5)
The Fund is, subject to the directions of the Cabinet member
responsible for State security, after consultation with the Cyber Response Committee,
under the control and management of the Director-General: State Security, who—
(a)
must utilise the money in the Fund in accordance with subsection (3);
(b)
is charged with the responsibility of accounting for money received in, and
payments made from, the Fund; and