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POPIA compliance: Department of Health
- 26 May 2022
- South African Accounting Academy
The Information Regulator will now monitor compliance by the National Department of Health (NDoH) with POPIA in general and the Guidance Note (on the processing of personal information in the management and containment of Covid-19 pandemic) in particular.
Furthermore, the Regulator undertook to ensure that personal information on the COVID -19 Tracing Database is de-identified, which means the any information that can be used to identify a person is deleted.
By this action, the Regulator wanted to ensure that the de-identified personal information is used strictly for research, study and teaching purposes only.
Lastly, the Regulator undertook to monitor processes in place for destroying all personal information on the COVID -19 Tracing Database which had not been de-identified.
Click here to download the Media statement:
Relevance to Auditors, Independent Reviewers & Accountants:
- POPIA is yet another piece of legislation that your Department of Health clients must comply with, and which you must assess compliance with. If they don’t comply with the relevant laws and regulations, you have certain reporting obligations in terms of NOCLAR (NOn-Compliance with Laws And Regulations) – this could include reporting to management, qualifying your audit opinion, reporting a Reportable Irregularity, etc.
Relevance to Your clients:
- An entity (company or close corporation) in the Health Industry has a duty to comply with the Protection of Personal Information Act, and directors have to fulfil their duties accordingly, otherwise they could be held liable.
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