Mr Speaker, I move without notice:
That the House -
1) notes that -
a) the Protection of State Information Bill [B 6B - 2010] was passed, subject to amendments, by the National Council of Provinces on 29 November 2012;
b) Rule 270(1) requires that the Speaker must refer the Bill, together with the proposed amendments by the National Council of Provinces, to the portfolio committee concerned or to any other appropriate Assembly committee for report and recommendations;
c) the Ad Hoc Committee on the Protection of Information Bill was the appropriate Assembly committee that originally considered the Bill; and
d) the Ad Hoc Committee on the Protection of Information Bill had ceased to exist on 18 November 2011, after it completed its task for which it was established and reported to the Assembly;
2) re-establishes the Ad Hoc Committee on the Protection of Information Bill with the same composition and powers as its predecessor (Minutes of Proceedings, 18 March 2010, p 516);
3) instructs the committee to consider the Bill in terms of Rule 270 and to incorporate in its work the proceedings and all the work of the previous committee up to and including 18 November 2011; and
4) sets the deadline by which the committee must report at 20 June 2013.
Agreed to.