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Correctional Matters Amendment Act 2011

Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services, South Africa

An Act to repeal provisions establishing an incarceration framework introduced by the Correctional Services Amendment Act, 2008, to amend the Correctional Services Act, 1998, so as to amend a definition and insert new definitions, to provide for a new medical parole system, to clarify certain provisions relating to parole and to provide for the management and detention of remand detainees.

South Africa 2011 Gender and Human Rights

Basic Education Laws Amendment Act

National Department of Basic Education, South Africa

This Act is designed to amend the National Policy Act, 1996, the South African Schools Act, 1996, the Employment of Educators Act, 1998, the South African Council for Educators Act, 2000and the General and Further Education and Training Quality Assurance Act, 2001, so as to amend certain definitions and to provide for related matters.

South Africa 2011 Education

Rural Development and Land Reform General Amendment Act

Ministry of Human Settlements,Ministry of Water and Sanitation, South Africa

This Act is designed to amend various laws under the administration of the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, so as to substitute certain obsolete definitions to ensure legal certainty; to effect certain consequential amendments in this regard; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

South Africa 2011 Democracy and Governance

Lotteries Amendment Act 2013

Public Enterprises, South Africa

This Act amends the Lotteries Act, 1997, so as to amend certain definitions and to provide for the establishment of a National Lotteries Commission, to provide for the extension of the powers of the board, to provide for a clear accountability process for the distributing agency, to provide for the professionalization of the distributing agency, to eliminate overlapping of functions between the Minister and the board, to provide the removal of the reconstruction and development programme as a category entitled to be allocated money of the fund and to provide for matters connected.

South Africa 2013 Youth and Sports Development

Merchant Shipping (Civil Liability Convention) Act, 2013

Ministry of Trade, Industry and Competition, South Africa

This is an Act to enact the International Maritime Organization Protocol of 1992 to amend the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage of 29 November 1969 into law and to provide for matters connected therewith.

South Africa 2013 Trade, Industry and Investment

Merchant Shipping (International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund) Contributions Act, 2013

Ministry of Trade, Industry and Competition, South Africa

This is an Act to provide for the imposition of the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund Contributions Levy on Persons referred to in Article 10 of the 1992 Fund Convention, to provide for the manner in which the levy is determined, to provide the levies and interest due to be paid to the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund are a direct charge against the National Revenue Fund and to provide for matters connected therewith.

South Africa 2013 Trade, Industry and Investment

Independent Communications Authority of South Africa Amendment Act, 2014

Communications, South Africa

This is an Act to amend the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa Act, 2000, so as to insert new, amend existing and repeal obsolete, definitions, to provide for further clarity on the powers and duties of the Authority, to introduce mechanisms to ensure the accountability of the Authority, including that of councillors and committees, and to confirm the use of electronic communications networks and services for the purpose of electronic transactions, and to provide for matters connected therewith.

South Africa 2014 Information, Communication and Technology

National Emergency Care Education and Training Policy

Ministry of Health, South Africa

This policy applies to all current and prospective public and private emergency care personnel and EMS education and training providers. This policy aims to ensure the alignment of emergency care education and training with current education legislation, national education and training needs and imperatives of the national Department of Health to ensure the rendering of quality healthcare services to the population of South Africa. Its objectives are to develop an NQF-aligned framework for emergency care education and training; to facilitate access to, and mobility and progression within emergency care education, training and career paths; and to rationalize, enhance and maintain the quality of emergency care education and training programmes.

South Africa 2017 Health

Electronic Communications Amendment Act, 2014

Communications, South Africa

An Act designed to amend the Electronic Communications Act, 2005, so as to insert, amend or delete certain definitions, to align the Act with broad-based black economic empowerment legislation, to refine provisions relating to licensing, to make further provision towards ensuring effective competition amongst persons licensed under the Act, to remove regulatory bottlenecks, to require the Minister of Communications to establish a council to advise the Minister on broadband policy and implementation, to make further provision for the discounted rate at which Internet services must be provided to schools, educational institutions and public health establishments, to authorise the Minister to require that certain information be submitted to the Minister and to make provision for the fiduciary duties of members of the Board of the Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa.

South Africa 2014 Information, Communication and Technology

Insurance Laws Amendment Bill

Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services, South Africa

A Bill to amend the Long-term Insurance Act, 1998 and the Short-term Insurance Act, 1998, so as to define certain terms; to state the objects of insurance regulation; to extend the powers of the Registrar; to extend the provisions relating to the licensing of insurers; to provide for explicit governance, risk management and internal control requirements of insurers; to provide for the supervision of insurance groups; to clarify certain market conduct matters; to make consequential amendments to other Acts, and to provide for matters connected therewith.

South Africa 2013 Gender and Human Rights

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Amendment Bill

Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy, South Africa

A Bill to amend the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002, as amended by the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2008 (Act No. 49 of 2008), so as to remove ambiguities that exist within the Act, to promote national energy security and provide for the regulation of associated minerals, partitioning of rights and enhance provisions relating to the regulation of the mining industry through beneficiation of minerals or mineral products.

South Africa 2013 Energy

South African Language Practitioners’ Council Act, 2014

Presidency, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, South Africa

This is an Act to provide for the establishment of the South African Language Practitioners’ Council, to provide for the objects, powers, duties and functions of the Council, to determine the manner in which the Council is to be managed, governed, staffed and financed, to regulate the training of language practitioners, to provide for control of the accreditation and registration of language practitioners, and to provide for matters connected therewith.

South Africa 2014 Democracy and Governance

National Environment Management Laws Second Amendment Act, 2013

Ministry of Human Settlements,Ministry of Water and Sanitation, South Africa

This is an Act to amend the National Environmental Management Act, 1998, so as to amend certain definitions, to adjust the timeframes for the preparation of environmental implementation plans and environmental management plans and to facilitate the mainstreaming of integrated, environmentally sustainable and sound management of business processes and decision making across the economy.

South Africa 2013 Democracy and Governance

Government Communication Policy

Communications, South Africa

This Communication Policy sets out the rules, processes and procedures on how communication will operate within government departments and across the three spheres: national, provincial and local. It also serves as the framework when developing a communication strategy for the government.

South Africa 2018 Information, Communication and Technology

Sectional Titles Amendment Act 2013

Presidency, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, South Africa

This is an Act to amend the Sectional Titles Act, 1986, so as to amend certain definitions, to further regulate notification of the intended establishment of schemes and the sale of units to lessees and to provide for the cancellation of registered sectional plans in a prescribed manner.

South Africa 2013 Democracy and Governance

Deeds Registries Amendment Act, 2013

Public Enterprises, South Africa

This is an Act to amend the Deeds Registries Act, 1937, so as to provide discretion in respect of the rectification of errors in the name of a person or the description of property mentioned in deeds and other documents. It also provides for the issuing of certificates of registered title taking the place of deeds that have become incomplete or unserviceable.

South Africa 2013 Democracy and Governance

Criminal Law (Forensic Procedures) Amendment Act 2013

Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services, South Africa

This is an Act to amend the Criminal Procedure Act 1997, so as to provide for the taking of specified bodily samples from certain categories of persons for the purposes of forensic DNA analysis and to provide in particular for the protection of the rights of women and children in the taking of DNA samples.

South Africa 2013 Gender and Human Rights