Community housing schemes have until 30 June 2021 to ensure complete compliance with the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act, warn property experts.
The regulations require schemes to have:
- A POPI policy
- Amended the rules of the scheme to comply with POPI;
- An information officer who is the POPI oversight representative of the scheme;
- POPI agreements with stakeholders who have access to the personal information of owners and tenants.