Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act, 2002 (Act 70 of 2002) Directives in Respect of Different Categories of Telecommunications Service Providers made in terms of The Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act, 2002 (Act No. 70 of 2002) Schedule A : Directive for Fixed Line Operators in Terms of Section 30(7)(a) read with Section 30(2) of The Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act, 2002 (Act No. 70 of 2002) Part 1 : Introductory Provisions 1. Definitions

 

(This Directive must be complied with within a period of six months from the date of publication hereof)

 

In this directive, unless the context otherwise indicates, a word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in the Act has the meaning so assigned, and-

 

"Act"

means the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act, 2002 (Act No. 70 of 2002);

 

"buffer"

means the temporary storing of communication-related information in case the necessary telecommunication connection to route information to the IC is temporarily unavailable, and "buffered" has a similar meaning;

 

"fixed line operator"

means a fixed line operator as defined in section 1 of the Telecommunications Act, 1996 (Act No. 103 of 1996), including any telecommunications service provider who has fixed line technology deployed in its telecommunications system, and is herein referred to as a "FLO";

 

"handover interface"

means a physical and logical interface across which the results of a direction or request are delivered from a FLO to the IC;

 

"identity"

means a technical label which may represent the origin or destination of any telecommunications traffic, as a rule clearly identified by a logical or virtual telecommunications identity number (such as a personal telephone number or subscriber number) assigned to a physical access;

 

"Interception Centre"

means an interception centre established in terms of section 32 of the Act and is herein referred to as the "IC";

 

"interception measure"

means a technical measure, which facilitates the interception of telecommunications traffic pursuant to the Act;

 

"interception target"

means the customer whose indirect communications are to be intercepted, or whose real-time communication-related information or archived communication-related information is to be routed by a FLO to an IC or provided to a law enforcement agency, pursuant to a direction or request;

 

"quality of service"

means the quality specification of a telecommunications channel, system, virtual channel, computer-telecommunications session, etc. Quality of service may be measured, for example, in terms of signal-to-noise ratio, bit error rate, message throughput rate or call blocking probability;

 

"result of interception"

means the content of an indirect communication which is routed by a FLO to the IC pursuant to an interception directive or request;

 

"request"

means a request in terms of section 7 of the Act;

 

"target identity"

means the identity associated with a target service (see below) used by the interception target; and

 

"target service"

means a telecommunications service associated with an interception target and usually specified in a direction or request.