Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000 (Act No. 2 of 2000)

Board Notices

Promotion of Access to Information Manual in terms of Section 14 of the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000

B. Prescribed fees for records held by a public body, as stipulated in the current regulations to the Act
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The fees for the reproduction referred to in Section 15(3) of the Act are as follows:

 

(a)

For every photocopy of an A4-size page or part thereof

R0-60

(b)

For every printed copy of an A4-size page or part thereof held on a computer or in an electronic or machine-readable format

R0-40

(c)

For a copy in a computer-readable format on a:

(i) USB

R40-00

(d)
(i) For a transcription of visual images, for an A4-size page or part thereof.
(ii) For a copy of visual images.

R22-00

R60-00

(e)
(i) For a transcription of an audio record, for an A4-size page or part thereof.
(ii) For a copy of an audio record.

R12-00

R17-00

The request fee payable by every requester, other than a personal requester referred to in Section 22(1) of the Act.

R35-00

 

The access fees payable by a requester referred to in Section 22(7) of the Act, unless exempted under Section 22(8) of the Act, are as follows:

 

(a)

For every photocopy of an A4-size page or part thereof.

R0-60

(b)

For every printed copy of an A4-size page or part thereof held on a computer or in an electronic or machine-readable format.

R0-40

(c)

For a copy in a computer-readable format on a:

(i) USB

R40-00

(d)
(i) For a transcription of visual images, for an A4-size page or part thereof.
(ii) For a copy of visual images.

R22-00

R60-00

(e)
(i) For a transcription of an audio record, for an A4-size page or part thereof.
(ii) For a copy of an audio record.

R12-00

R17-00

(f)

Record search fee, for each hour or part of an hour, excluding the first hour, reasonably required for such a search.

R15-00

 

Note: The actual postal or courier fee is payable when a copy of a record needs to be posted or sent via courier to a requester.

 

For the purposes of Section 22(2) of the Act, the following applies:

 

If the IRBA’s Information Officer or Deputy Information Officer believes that the collection and reproduction of the requested records will take longer than six hours, a third of the access fee may be payable upfront as a deposit, and the requester will be notified accordingly.

 

If the record is not provided in the originally requested format, the access fee charged will not exceed the fee that would have been charged had access been granted in the originally requested format.