or specially provided for in this Act, a news agency or broadcasting licensee as defined
in the Broadcasting Services Act [ Chapter 12:06];
“Minister” means the Minister responsible for information and publicity or any other
Minister to whom the President may, from time to time, assign the administration of
this Act;
“National Archives” means the National Archives of Zimbabwe established in terms of the
National Archives of Zimbabwe Act [Chapter 25:06];
“personal information” means recorded information about an identifiable person, and
includes—
(a) the person's name, address or telephone number;
(b) the person's race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religious or political beliefs or
associations;
(c) the person's age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status or family status;
(d) an identifying number, symbol or other particulars assigned to that person;
(e) fingerprints, blood type or inheritable characteristics;
(f) information about a person’s health care history, including a physical or mental
disability;
(g) information about educational, financial, criminal or employment history;
(h) anyone else’s opinions about the individual; and
(i) the individual’s personal views or opinions, except if they are about someone else;
(j) personal correspondence, home and family;
“personal information bank” means a collection of personal information that is organised or
retrievable by the name of an individual or by an identifying number, symbol or other
particular assigned to that individual and includes personal images;
“prescribe” means prescribe by regulations made in terms of section ninety-one;
“press card” means a document issued to a journalist in terms of section seventy-nine;
“public body” means any body prescribed as a public body in terms of the first column of
the Second Schedule to this Act.
“record” includes books, documents, maps, drawings, photographs, letters, vouchers,
papers and any other thing on which information is recorded or stored by graphic,
electronic, mechanical or other means, but does not include a computer programme or
any other mechanism that produces records;
“third party”, in relation to a request for access to a record or for correction of personal
information, means any person, group of persons or organisation other than the person
who made the request;
“trade secret” means information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, programme,
device, product, method, technique or process, that is used, or may be used, in business
or for any commercial advantage and—

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