Spatial Data Infrastructure Act, 2003 (Act No. 54 of 2003)17. Reporting on data quality |
(1) | A user or data vendor must report any deficiency in the quality of spatial information to the data custodian or data vendor who supplied the information, within a prescribed period after discovering that deficiency. |
(2) | The user or data vendor must provide specific and sufficient information in the report to enable the data custodian or data vendor who supplied the spatial information to identify the record concerned and must, if possible, indicate what the record should contain. |
(3) | The data custodian or data vendor must respond, in the prescribed time and manner, to the user or data vendor after receiving the report on that deficiency. |
(4) | If a data custodian or data vendor does not respond within the prescribed time, the user or data vendor may refer the matter to the Committee, and the Committee may take any remedial action it considers necessary or expedient. |