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GOVERNMENT2 GAZETTE, AUGUST 2002
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Act No. 25,2002
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND
TRANSACTIONS ACT, 2002
(English text signed by the President.)
(Assented to 31 July 2002.)
ACT
To provide for the facilitation and regulation of electronic communications and
transactions;toprovideforthedevelopment
of anationale-strategyforthe
Republic; to promote universal access to electronic communications and transactions and the use of electronic transactions by SMMEs; to provide for human
resource development in electronic transactions; to prevent abuse of information
systems; to encourage the useof e-government services; and to provide for matters
connected therewith.
B
E IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as
follows:ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Sections
CHAPTER I
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INTERPRETATION, OBJECTS AND APPLICATION
1.
2.
3.
3.
Definitions
Objects of Act
Interpretation
Sphere of application
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CHAPTER I1
MAXIMISING BENEFITS AND POLICY FRAMEWORK
Part 1
National e-strategy
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
National e-strategy
Universal access
Previously disadvantaged persons and communities
Development of human resources
SMMEs
Part 2
Electronic transactions policy
10.
Electronic transactions policy
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