6   No. 42866 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28 NOVEMBER 2019 Act No. 8 of 2019 Critical Infrastructure Protection Act, 2019 6 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Consideration of application for declaration as critical infrastructure by Critical Infrastructure Council Powers of Minister to declare infrastructure as critical infrastructure Certificate of declaration as critical infrastructure Amendment or variation of information or conditions by Minister Termination and revocation of declaration 5 CHAPTER 4 POWERS AND DUTIES OF PERSONS IN CONTROL OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE 24. 25. Powers and duties of persons in control of critical infrastructure Access to critical infrastructure 10 CHAPTER 5 OFFENCES AND PENALTIES 26. Offences and penalties CHAPTER 6 15 REGULATIONS 27. Regulations CHAPTER 7 GENERAL AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. Administrative justice Repeal of legislation Transitional arrangements Indemnity against loss or damage Short title and commencement CHAPTER 1 20 25 DEFINITIONS, PURPOSE AND APPLICATION OF ACT Definitions 1. In this Act, unless the context indicates otherwise— ‘‘basic public service’’ includes a service, whether provided by the public or private sector, relating to communication, energy, health, sanitation, transport and 30 water, the interference with which may prejudice the livelihood, well-being, daily operations or economic activity of the public; ‘‘critical infrastructure’’ means any infrastructure which is declared as such in terms of section 20(1) and includes a critical infrastructure complex where required by the context; 35 ‘‘critical infrastructure complex’’ means more than one critical infrastructure grouped together for practical or administrative reasons, which is determined as such in terms of section 20(1)(c); ‘‘Critical Infrastructure Council’’ means the Critical Infrastructure Council established in terms of section 4, and ‘‘Council’’ has a corresponding meaning; 40 ‘‘disaster management centre’’ includes the ‘National Centre’, ‘provincial disaster management centre’ and ‘municipal disaster management centre’ as defined in section 1 of the Disaster Management Act, 2002 (Act No. 57 of 2002); This gazette is also available free online at www.gpwonline.co.za