South African companies, practices and small businesses

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Draft your PAIA manual with the POPIA sections it must now include, plus information officer steps. For South African businesses. Free to read.

  • Free to read
  • No sign-up until the draft
  • Every fact cites its source
SOUTH AFRICA

ePlan fills in

  • Company details
  • Directors
  • Business address
  • Information officer

How it works

PAIA manual for a private body, from one answer

  1. Enter the business name and whose personal information you hold.One answer starts the project. ePlan names it and looks up the place.
  2. ePlan fills the company details and the POPIA sections the manual must carry.3 more questions, each with a "not sure yet" way out.
  3. Read the manual free, then download it to publish and sign.The draft marks what to check (amber), what to pick (blue) and what to fill in (violet).

What you get

PAIA manual for a private body and 1 more document

The first draft is free to read. Each document after it is drafted from the same confirmed facts.

The first draft

PAIA manual for a private body

  1. Business details and information officer
  2. Guide on how to use PAIA
  3. Records available without a request
  4. Records held under other laws
  5. Subjects and categories of records
  6. Processing of personal information (POPIA)

Modeled on: Information Regulator PAIA manual template for private bodies

Next · 2

POPIA compliance pack

  1. Privacy notice
  2. Consent form
  3. Information officer appointment
  4. Breach response steps

From public data

What ePlan fills in, and from where

R10 million

is the largest administrative fine the Information Regulator can impose under POPIA
Source: Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013, s. 109

Questions

PAIA manual for a private body: what people ask

Does my business need a PAIA manual?

Yes. Section 51 of PAIA requires the head of a private body to make a manual available, and the Information Regulator says public and private bodies must have their PAIA manuals publicly available.

Source: inforegulator.org.za

Where must the manual be published?

On your website if you have one, at your principal place of business for inspection during business hours, to anyone who asks for a reasonable fee, and to the Information Regulator on request.

Source: gov.za

Must the information officer be registered?

Yes. Under POPIA, information officers take up their duties only after the business has registered them with the Information Regulator, on its Information Officer Portal.

Source: inforegulator.org.za

The rules this door follows