| (1) | The Director-General must develop, establish and maintain the integrated electronic repository for domestic violence protection orders. |
(2)
| (a) | The Director-General must appoint or designate a fit and proper person, with due regard to their relevant expertise, experience, conscientiousness and integrity, as administrator of the integrated electronic repository. |
| (b) | The administrator of the integrated electronic repository— |
| (i) | must carry out the administrative duties relating to the functioning of the integrated electronic repository; |
| (ii) | must manage, and exercise administrative control over the integrated electronic repository; |
| (iii) | must ensure compliance with any directive issued in terms of subsection (3); and |
| (iv) | is, for purposes of the exercise of the powers, performance of the functions and carrying out of the duties conferred upon, assigned to or imposed upon them under this Act, accountable to the Director-General. |
| (3) | In achieving the objectives contemplated in subsection (1), the Director-General must, in consultation with the administrator of the integrated electronic repository and the Information Regulator established in terms of section 39 of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (Act No. 4 of 2013), issue directives to provide for— |
| (a) | the functional requirements of the integrated electronic repository; |
| (b) | the technical specifications for the integrated electronic repository; |
| (c) | the specifications for the interface between the integrated electronic repository and any authorised party interfacing with the integrated electronic repository; |
| (d) | the persons or categories or class of persons who will be authorised to access documents or any other electronic records contained in the integrated electronic repository; |
| (e) | the standards governing the information security of the integrated electronic repository; |
| (f) | the operation of the integrated electronic repository; |
| (g) | the processing of information using the integrated electronic repository; |
| (h) | the secure retention and subsequent production of documents or any other electronic records, which may be required for purposes of this Act, and which must be complied with by persons interacting with the integrated electronic repository; |
| (i) | the capturing of documents in the integrated electronic repository; and |
| (j) | any other matter which may be necessary or expedient to prescribe in order to achieve or promote the objects of the integrated electronic repository. |
[Section 6A inserted by section 12 of the Domestic Violence Amendment Act, 2021 (Act No. 14 of 2021), as per Notice No. 788, GG45824, dated 28 January 2022 - effective 14 April 2023 as the date on which the said Act, with the exception of section 6A, comes into operation, as per Proclamation No. 117, GG48419, dated 14 April 2023]
