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NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
WIPO Copyright & Performances and Phonograms Treaties; Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances; Committee Legacy Report
26 Mar 2019
The purpose of the Department of Trade and Industry briefing was to seek approval from the Committee to accede to the World Intellectual Property Organisation Treaties, in terms of section 231(2) of the Constitution. The three treaties to be considered was the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances, the World Intellectual ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
National Land Transport Amendment Bill: final mandates; Committee Legacy & Oversight Reports
19 Mar 2019
The Committee received a total of seven Final Mandates from provinces on the National Land Transport Amendment Bill. Six of the seven provinces voted in favour of the Bill. The Western Cape Province was the only province to have voted against the Bill. Final mandates from the Free State and ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
Copyright & Performers’ Protection Amendment Bills: Department response to submissions
6 Mar 2019
The DTI had grouped submissions and responses into themes which was the format of presentation for both Bills. The major themes that had elicited comment about the Copyright Amendment Bill were: Consultations on the Bill, Tagging of the Bill, the Reversionary Clause, Retrospective Application of Provisions and Constitutional Compliance. On ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
National Land Transport Amendment Bill: proposed amendments
27 Feb 2019
Members were taken through the proposed amendment to the National Land Transport Amendment Bill.
The C-list of amendments related to Clauses 6, 7, 16, 40 and 50 of the Bill. Most of the amendments were of a technical nature. A new provision was introduced to Clause 16 of the Bill. ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
National Credit Amendment Bill: finalisation
27 Feb 2019
Provinces presented their final mandates on the National Credit Amendment Bill. No final mandate was received from KwaZulu-Natal. With the exception of the Western Cape Province, which did not support the Bill, the remaining seven provinces voted in favour of it.
The Committee Report on the Bill reflected that the ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
National Credit Amendment Bill: negotiating mandates; Copyright Amendment & Performers’ Protection Amendment Bills: briefing
13 Feb 2019
Documents handed out: Responses by Parliamentary Law Adviser/DTI to Negotiating Mandates [awaited]; Call for Comment
The Parliamentary Law Adviser presented the Provincial Negotiating Mandates on the National Credit Amendment Bill. Eight of the nine provinces had voted in favour of the Bill with the exception of the Western Cape Province ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
National Land Transport Amendment Bill: legal opinion on constitutionality; Department response to Negotiating Mandates
12 Feb 2019
Parliament’s Constitutional and Legal Advice Office pointed out that the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) believed that the approach taken in the Bill fundamentally changed the existing National Land Transport Act in ways which it believed were inconsistent with both the Constitution and sound public transport management. The relevant ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
National Credit Amendment Bill: consideration of submissions
28 Nov 2018
The Committee met to consider written submissions on the National Credit Amendment Bill [B30-2018], which was described as a debt intervention bill (DIB). Debt counselling was costly and it was not provided to a certain segment of consumers. That had emerged after the Committee had consulted with debt counsellors, where ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Committee Legacy Report
27 Nov 2018
The Committee considered and adopted several outstanding minutes.
The Committee decided not to consider its Legacy Report and Annual Report because the documents were not complete. Both will be considered the following week.
Constitutional Review Committee
Committee Report on Review of Section 25 of Constitution: adoption
15 Nov 2018
VIDEO: Will section 25 of the Constitution be amended?
The Chairperson noted the observations and recommendations made by Members on behalf of their political parties the day before. There were points of divergence and convergence which the Committee can highlight in its observations. The Committee must have a final recommendation ...