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Justice and Correctional Services
Maintenance Bill [B16-2014]: Department response to submissions
18 Mar 2015
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development continued its overview of the submissions and responses on the Maintenance Amendment Bill. The Bill aimed to amend the Maintenance Amendment Act by introducing provisions on granting interim orders where there was no maintenance order in place so that beneficiaries of maintenance did ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Maintenance Bill [B16-2014]: Department response to submissions; Suspension of magistrates: progress report by Magistrates Commission
17 Mar 2015
The State Law Adviser from the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (the Department) presented a summary of the written submissions, and the Department's response to each, submitted on the Maintenance Amendment Bill (the Bill). The Bill aimed to amend the Maintenance Amendment Act by introducing provisions for granting interim ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act Amendment Bill: public hearings Day 4
11 Mar 2015
The core of the submissions is as follows:
Childline
This submission supported the decriminalisation of consensual sexual activity between adolescents, because it has not only reduced these people’s access to education about healthy sexual choices and clinical reproductive health services, but also has proven to be an ineffective measure against ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act Amendment Bill: public hearings Day 2
4 Mar 2015
The meeting began with the Chairperson welcoming this round of submissions as an exemplary instance of public participation, with the Committee having received more than 900 written submissions following an extended period for submissions.
The core of each oral submissions is as follows:
Logos Assembly of God
Seeing as children ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act Amendment Bill: public hearings Day 1
3 Mar 2015
The meeting began with the adoption of a Committee Report to the National Assembly about the application to the Chief Justice for an extension of the period by which Parliament must have amended the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act. The Committee then heard submissions on the ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Maintenance Amendment Bill: public hearings
25 Feb 2015
The Committee deliberated on the Maintenance Amendment Bill. Notable amendments include clause one of the bill seeks to amend Section 6 of the Act to oblige a maintenance officer to investigate a matter with the view of institution a maintenance inquiry where good cause exists for the substitution or discharge ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Judicial Matters Amendment Bill [B2-2015]: briefing by Deputy Minister
24 Feb 2015
The Deputy Minister prefaced the briefing on the Bill by saying that Judicial Amendment Bills are intended to effect a number of amendments to a variety of Acts, generally inspired by practical experience. He requested that comments and questions be dealt with after each clause, given that the legislation dealt ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Human Resources related challenges: Department of Correctional Services briefing
19 Nov 2014
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) briefed the Committee in detail on its challenges in human resources. It noted that there was still a problem in leadership stability, with a consistent number of vacancies at senior management at both national and regional levels. The recruitment and retention strategy set out ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Correctional facilities: overcrowding & security; DCS briefing; Maintenance Amendment Bill: Deputy Minister & DoJ&CD briefings
12 Nov 2014
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) briefed the Committee on overcrowding and the threat that this posed to security in correctional centres. The DCS described the problem of over-crowding, how it arose and its extent, the solutions that the Department and other linked departments proposed or were implementing, and how ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Correctional Centre Infrastructure: Department of Correctional Services briefing
5 Nov 2014
The Department of Correctional Services said that the Department of Public Works (DPW) was the custodian of government buildings and manages the municipality accounts for DCS facilities. DCS leases government owned properties directly from DPW and pays accommodation charges to DPW. For the 2014/15 to 2019/20 financial period, it requires ...