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'postal article' means any postal article as defined in the Postal Services Act;
'postal service' means a postal service as defined in the Postal Services Act, and
includes any(a)
private postal service; and
(b)

service which is offered or provided as a service of which the main
purpose, or one of the main purposes, is to make available, or to
facilitate, a means of transmission from one place to another place of
postal articles containing indirect communications;

'Postal Services Act' means the Postal Services Act, 1998 ( Act 124 of 1998 );
'postal service provider' means any person who provides a postal service;
'premises' includes any land, building, structure, vehicle, ship, boat, vessel, aircraft
or container;
'Prevention of Organised Crime Act' means the Prevention of Organised Crime Act,
1998 ( Act 121 of 1998 );
'private body' means(a)
a natural person who carries on any trade, business or profession, but
only in such capacity;
(b)

a partnership which carries on any trade, business or profession; or

(c)

any juristic person,

but excludes a public body;
'prosecuting authority' means the national prosecuting authority established by
section 179 of the Constitution;
'public body' means any(a)
department of state or administration in the national or provincial
sphere of government or any municipality in the local sphere of
government; or
(b)

other functionary or institution when(i)

exercising a power or performing a duty in terms of the
Constitution or a provincial constitution; or

(ii)

exercising a public power or performing a public function in
terms of any legislation;

'real-time communication-related direction' means a direction issued under
section 17 (3) or 18 (3) in terms of which a telecommunication service provider is
directed to provide real-time communication-related information in respect of a customer,
on an ongoing basis, as it becomes available, and includes an oral real-time
communication-related direction issued under section 23 (7);
'real-time communication-related information' means communication-related
information which is immediately available to a telecommunication service provider(a)
before, during, or for a period of 90 days after, the transmission of an
indirect communication; and
(b)

in a manner that allows the communication-related information to be

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