PAIA Annual Report Submissions

In terms of section 32 of the Promotion of Access to Information (PAIA), the information officer of every public body must submit on an annual basis a report to the Regulator in respect of access to information requests received and processed by the public body.

Section 83(4) of PAIA empowers the Regulator to also request
the Heads of private bodies to furnish it with reports about requests for access to records of
the private body.

The information officer of each public body must annually submit to the Information Regulation a report stating in relation 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(1) were extended in terms of section 26(1);

f) 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;

g) 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;

h) the number of applications to a court which were lodged on the ground that an internal appeal was regarded as having been dismissed in terms of section 77(7); and

i) such other matters as may be prescribed.