NATIONAL STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE ACT: CO-ORDINATION REGULATIONS IN FORCE

NATIONAL STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE ACT: CO-ORDINATION REGULATIONS IN FORCE

• 12 April 2024
• Safety and Security
• SA Legal Academy

Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, has gazetted a notice announcing the commencement of regulations for national intelligence co-ordination under the National Strategic Intelligence Act, 1994. The regulations themselves are not available since – in terms of sub-section 6(4) of the Act, as amended – ‘a regulation made under this Act may not be published in the Gazette, but where such a regulation only affects the members of the National Intelligence Structures or their functioning, the affected parties must be notified in a manner determined by the Minister’.

According to the notice, the new regulations deal with:

• ‘the production and dissemination of strategic intelligence for use and consideration by Cabinet and the executive’
• ‘the manner and form in which departmental intelligence must be supplied to state departments’
• ‘the manner and form in which the National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee (NICOC) may be tasked’
• ‘the provision of staff required for … (its) management and administration’
• ‘the delineation of the management, composition, functions and responsibilities of the Office of the Co-ordinator and NICOC’, and
• ‘the establishment and functioning of a National Centre for Intelligence Co-ordination, as well as (a) related national early warning structure within … (it)’.

Please click the links below for more information:

• Government Gazette notice
• Act, updated to reflect amendedments (as published on the State Security Agency website)

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