Freedom of Information 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 correspondence, fact, opinion, advice, memorandum, data, statistic, book, drawing, plan, map, diagram, photograph, audio or visual record, and any other tangible or intangible material, regardless of the form or medium in which it is held, in the possession or under the control of the entity to which a request is made under this Act; “information officer” means a person designated as such by the principle officer of an entity or any person acting in that capacity; “media” has the meaning given to it under the Zimbabwe Media Commission Act [Chapter 10:34]; “Minister” means the Minister responsible for information or any other Minister to whom the President may, from time to time, assign the administration of this Act; “personal information” means information about an identifiable individual, and includes— (a) information relating to the race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, national, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental health, well-being, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth of the individual; (b) information relating to the education or the medical, criminal or employment history of the individual or information relating to financial transactions in which the individual has been involved; (c) any identifying number, symbol or other particular assigned to the individual; (d) the address, fingerprints or blood type of the individual; (e) the personal opinions, views or preferences of the individual, except where they are about another individual or about a proposal for a grant, an award or a prize to be made to another individual; (f) correspondence sent by the individual that is implicitly or explicitly of a private or confidential nature or further correspondence that would reveal the contents of the original correspondence; (g) the views or opinions of another individual about the individual; (h) the views or opinions of another individual about a proposal for a grant, an award or a prize to be made to the individual, but excluding the name of the other individual where it appears with the views or opinions of the other individual; and (i) the name of the individual where it appears with other personal information relating to the individual or where the disclosure of the name itself would reveal information about the individual, but excludes information about an individual who has been dead for more than twenty years; “principal officer”, in relation to any entity, means the person who is the executive head, by whatever name known, of the entity concerned, or any person acting in that capacity; “private entity” means an entity other than a public entity, public commercial entity or statutory office; “public commercial entity” means a company or other commercial entity which is owned or controlled by the State or by a person on behalf of the State; “public entity” has the meaning given to it in the Public Finance Management Act [Chapter 22:19]; “responsible person” means the principal officer or one of several officers of— (a) a public entity; 5