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NCOP Finance
Committee Legacy Report
14 May 2024
On 14 May 2024, the Select Committee on Finance convened a virtual meeting to consider and adopt the Committee’s Sixth Parliament Legacy Report.
The Committee had set seven strategic objectives which guided its activities over the five-year term. These related to processing the fiscal framework of the budget in ...
NCOP Appropriations
Committee Legacy Report
8 May 2024
In their final meeting of the Sixth Parliament, the Committee met on a virtual platform to consider and adopt its legacy report, which was a handover report for the next Parliament covering recommendations and activities of the work of the Select Committee on Appropriations from 2019 to 2024. Members ...
NCOP Finance
Public Procurement Bill: NT response to additional public input & Final Mandates
7 May 2024
The Select Committee on Finance concluded its processing of the Public Procurement (PP) Bill. This followed a series of deliberations on the Bill, which seeks to provide clear guidelines and standards for procurement across various government entities while promoting transparency, efficiency, and accountability in the procurement process to address ...
NCOP Finance
Public Procurement Bill: Proposed amendments & deliberations
2 May 2024
The Select Committee on Finance convened virtually to continue deliberations on the Public Procurement (PP) Bill.
Members focused on refining the language of the Bill to ensure that the provisions supported the aim of opening up state procurement to a wider range of participants, and were aligned with some ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill: Final Mandates
30 Apr 2024
The Select Committee on Appropriations in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) convened virtually to consider the final mandates on the Division of Revenue Bill. It was noted that National Treasury had provided a written response to the negotiating mandates.
The final mandates of eight provinces supported the Division ...
NCOP Finance
Public Procurement Bill: Negotiating Mandates & National Treasury response
30 Apr 2024
The Select Committee on Finance convened virtually to hear the provincial mandates on the Public Procurement (PP) Bill and the National Treasury’s (NT) responses.
All provinces except the Western Cape (WC) voted in favour of the Bill. Several provinces made comments and proposed amendments. Amongst others, they said the ...
NCOP Finance
Public Procurement Bill: National Treasury response to public submissions
25 Apr 2024
The Select Committee on Finance convened virtually to discuss stakeholder submission on the Public Procurement (PP) Bill. National Treasury presented the input and its response.
Members discussed proposed amendments to incentivised whistleblowing, pre-qualification and set-aside clauses, transparency, and the regulations to be made by the Minister. They also thoroughly ...
NCOP Finance
Public Procurement Bill: Civil Society concerns & constitutional matters
23 Apr 2024
Select Committee on Finance Response to Civil Society (awaited document)
The Select Committee on Finance deliberated on the concerns raised by civil society organisations about the constitutionality of the Public Procurement Bill and National Treasury’s (NT) responses to public submissions on the Bill.
First, civil society asserted that not ...
NCOP Finance
Pension Funds Amendment Bill: adoption
19 Apr 2024
The Select Committee on Finance considered and adopted the Pension Funds Amendment (PFA) Bill and the accompanying Committee Report.
The objective of the Bill is to amend the Pension Funds Act (PFA), of 1956, the Post and Telecommunications Related Matters Act (PTRMA), of 1958, the Transnet Pension Fund Act (TPFA), of ...
Budget (WCPP)
Division of Revenue Bill: NT and NCOP Delegate briefing & public hearings
18 Apr 2024
The Western Cape Provincial Parliament's Budget Committee was briefed on the Division of Revenue Bill (DoRB) by the National Treasury (NT) and the province's permanent delegate to the National Council of Provinces.
Members were told that the Bill should be seen against the backdrop of a slow-growing economy facing ...