# Promotion of Access to Information Amendment Act, 2002

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Act No. 54 of 2002 amended the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000. It came into force when it was published in the Government Gazette on 15 January 2003.
(English text signed by the President.) (Assented to 30 December 2002.)
Act
To amend the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000, so as to amend a definition and to provide for the training of presiding officers in the magistrates' courts for purposes of the Act; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Be it enacted by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:―
Amendment of section 1 of Act 2 of 2000, as amended by section 21 of Act 42 of 2001
1. Section 1 of the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000, is hereby amended by the substitution for the definition of “court” of the following definition:
“‘court’ means—
(a)
(b)
(i)
(ii)
within whose area of jurisdiction—
(aa)
(bb)
(cc)
Insertion of section 91A in Act 2 of 2000
2. The following section is hereby inserted after section 91 of the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000:
“Designation and training of presiding officers
91A. (1) (a) The head of an administrative region defined in section 1 of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1944 (Act No. 32 of 1944), must, subject to subsection (2), designate in writing any magistrate or additional magistrate ​as a presiding officer of a Magistrate's Court designated by the Minister in terms of section 1 of this Act.
(b) A presiding officer must perform the functions and duties and exercise the powers assigned to or conferred on him or her under this Act or any other law.
(2) Only a magistrate or additional magistrate who has completed a training course—
(a)
(b)
and whose name has been included on the list contemplated in subsection (4)(a), may be designated in terms of subsection (1).
(3) The heads of administrative regions must—
(a)
(b)
(a)
(a)
(5) The Chief Justice must, in consultation with the Judicial Service Commission and the Magistrates Commission, develop the content of training courses with the view to building a dedicated and experienced pool of trained and specialised presiding officers for purposes of presiding in court proceedings as contemplated in this Act.
(6) The Chief Justice must, in consultation with the Judicial Service Commission, the Magistrates Commission and the Minister, implement the training courses referred to in subsection (5).
(7) The Minister must table a report in Parliament, as prescribed, relating to the content and implementation of the training courses referred to in subsections (5) and (6).”.
Short title
3. This Act is called the Promotion of Access to Information Amendment Act, 2002.
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