Section 16C: Agency Cooperation
consolidated text (as at 2016, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
16C. Agency Cooperation
(1) Notwithstanding any other enactment, the Director-General may,
through an electronic system or in such other appropriate manner, share with
another public sector agency or parastatal body, such information as may be
mutually agreed upon and which the public sector agency or parastatal body
may require for the discharge of its functions in respect of—
(a) goods, persons or crafts;
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(b) import or export transactions;
(c) importers or exporters; or
(d) data or information which is required for border protection purpose.
(2) No public sector agency or parastatal body shall disclose any information obtained pursuant to subsection (1) to a third party.
(3) In this section—
“border protection purpose” means any lawful purpose relating to, or
connected with, the performance of—
(a) a Government-related border management function;
(b) a Customs-related border management function.
[S. 16C inserted by s. 11 (e) of Act 18 of 2016 w.e.f. 7 September 2016.]