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Section 56 | National Director of Public Prosecutions must keep Statistics of Prosecutions

  1. The National Director of Public Prosecutions must keep statistics of the number of prosecutions instituted for offences in terms of Part I or Part II of Chapter 2, the outcome of such prosecutions and any other information relating to such prosecutions, which is determined by the Cabinet member responsible for the
    administration of justice.
  2. The statistics or information contemplated in subsection (1) must be included in the report of the National Director of Public Prosecutions referred to in section 22(4)(g) of the National Prosecuting Authority Act, 1998.

Section 57 National Executive may enter into agreements

  1. The National Executive may enter into any agreement with any foreign State regarding—

a) the provision of mutual assistance and cooperation relating to the investigation and prosecution of—

i) an offence under Part I or Part II of Chapter 2;

ii) any other offence in terms of the laws of the Republic, which may be committed by means of, or facilitated through the use of, an article; or

iii) an offence—

aa) similar to those contemplated in Part I or Part II of Chapter 2;

bb) substantially similar to an offence recognised in the Republic, which may be committed by means of, or facilitated through the use of, an article,
in that foreign State;

b) the implementation of cybercrime response activities;

c) training, research, information and technology-sharing and the exchange of information on the detection, prevention, mitigation and investigation of cybercrimes;

d) the establishment or designation of points of contact to facilitate the provision of mutual assistance and cooperation as contemplated in paragraph (a);

e) the implementation of emergency cross-border response mechanisms to mitigate the effect of cybercrimes; and

f) the reciprocal implementation of measures to curb cybercrime.

(2) A member of the National Executive must, as soon as practicable after Parliament has agreed to the ratification of, accession to, amendment of, or revocation of, an agreement referred to in subsection (1), give notice thereof in the Gazette.