The Promotion of Access to Information Amendment Bill, therefore, aims to do the following. Clause 1 aims to insert a new definition in section 1 of the Promotion of Access to Information Act, namely, the definition of political party to ensure that political parties and independent candidates are regarded as private bodies for the purposes of the Act. The clause also affects certain consequential amendments to the definitions of private body and head of a private body. Clause 2 proposes a new section 52(a) and obliges the head of a political party to create and keep records of any donations that have been made to a political party which exceed the prescribed threshold in a financial year and the identity of the persons or entities who made such donations. The records must be made available on a quarterly basis as prescribed and the records must be kept for a period of at least five years after the records concerned have been created.