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Justice and Constitutional Development
Report on Oversight visits to the Western Cape, KZN, Mpumalanga & Gauteng
23 Sep 2022
In this virtual meeting, the Committee considered and adopted the report on its oversight visits to Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, and Gauteng. The visits were undertaken in January 2022.
The Committee noted that Members had also undertaken individual visits and they will be submitting reports that ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
Drugs and Drug Trafficking Amendment Bill: adoption; Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: Department response to submissions; with Deputy Minister
21 Sep 2022
The Committee considered and adopted the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Amendment Bill in this virtual meeting and the accompanying report.
The purpose of the Bill is to amend the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act, 1992, to repeal the Minister’s delegated plenary legislative powers to amend Schedules. The effect thereof ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
Land Court Bill: adoption; Drugs and Drug Trafficking Amendment Bill: public hearings & Department response
20 Sep 2022
The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services considered and adopted the report on the Land Court Bill.
The purpose of the Bill is to provide for the establishment of a Land Court and a Land Court of Appeal, make provision for the administration and ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: exclusion of public input from summary of submissions, with Deputy Minister
9 Sep 2022
The Committee was originally supposed to meet so that the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development could share its response to the submissions on the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill. However, they were informed that several submissions were excluded from the summary that was ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: Department response to submissions, with Deputy Minister
7 Sep 2022
In this virtual meeting, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development briefed the Committee on its response to the submissions received on the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill.
The Department also presented the latest working document of the Bill. The working document highlighted the ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
Land Court Bill: deliberations
6 Sep 2022
Land Court Bill – Working Document 4: 6 September 2022 (Awaited document)
In this virtual meeting, the legal advisors in the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development took the Committee through the proposed amendments to the Land Court Bill.
It was proposed that Subclause 4, Clause 8, be moved ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: Department response to submissions; Drugs and Drug Trafficking Amendment Bill: adoption
2 Sep 2022
In this virtual meeting, the Portfolio Committee was briefed by the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD) on the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Amendment Bill. By enacting this Amendment Bill, the Department sought to amend the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act to address the constitutional ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
Land Court Bill: deliberations; International Conventions: DoJ&CD briefing; with Deputy Minister
31 Aug 2022
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance
The Portfolio Committee received a briefing in a virtual meeting from the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development on two international conventions -- the International Convention ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
Legislative programme & bills with Constitutional Court deadlines; Remuneration of public office bearers of independent constitutional institutions, with Deputy Ministers
30 Aug 2022
In this meeting, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development briefed the Committee on the determination of salaries and allowances of the Public Protector, Deputy Public Protector and Commissioners of the South African Human Rights Commission. The Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Representatives made a recommendation for a ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
Bills with Constitutional Court deadlines: Parliamentary Legal Services briefing
24 Aug 2022
The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services received a briefing from Parliamentary Legal Services on bills with Constitutional Court deadlines.
There were two matters where the suspension of orders was lapsing in December 2022. With Sonke Gender Justice NPC v President of the Republic of South Africa and ...