A new bill on intelligence that would require new NGOs to be vetted by intelligence services is coming to Parliament.NGOs, religious organisations, and security companies would have to be vetted by intelligence agencies.intends to restructureinto a domestic intelligence agency and an international intelligence service.
Chief among its recommendations was that the SSA should be restructured into a domestic intelligence agency and a foreign intelligence service.
Furthermore, the bill states that the intelligence services “must conduct a vetting investigation in the prescribed manner to determine the security competence” of a number of persons, including people who “seeks to establish and operate a non-governmental organisation or religious institution” and “seeks to establish a private security company in the Republic”.
Another clause of the bill enables the minister to make regulations relating to “information security and the protection of intelligence”. “Information security” is not defined in the bill.