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Finance Standing Committee
Carbon Tax Bill: Treasury response to submissions
7 Jun 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs and the Standing Committee on Finance received a briefing from the National Treasury on its responses to the various comments from various stakeholders on the draft Carbon Tax Bill 2017. In addition, a number of the stakeholders, including a university professor, a non-governmental organisation ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
NEMLA Bill: deliberations
5 Jun 2018
The Committee received a briefing from the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) on the proposed amendments to the National Environmental Management Laws Amendment (NEMLA) Bill.
The purpose of the Bill was to amend certain provisions under the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA), taking into account related legislation dealing with protected ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Human Settlements Quarter 4 performance; Urban Settlements Development Grant: Joburg & Gauteng performance; with Deputy Minister
5 Jun 2018
This meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements was attended by the Deputy Minister, Ms Zoe Kota-Fredericks. The National Department of Human Settlements, the Provincial Department on Human Settlements and the City of Johannesburg presented their briefings before Parliament went on recess until 13 August 2018. All three reports ...
Transport
Road Accident Benefit Scheme Bill: public hearings day 4
30 May 2018
Documents handed out:
Western Cape Government: Department of Transport submission [awaited]
Association for Protection of Road Accident Victims (APRAV) submission [awaited]
Risk House Africa Actuaries submission [awaited]
Indwe Risk Services submission [awaited]
The Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA) gave an overview of the RAF and RABS dispensations. It would be risky introducing ...
Powers and Privileges of Parliament
Powers, Privileges and Immunities of Parliament Amendment Bill: committee report
29 May 2018
The Committee met briefly to approve the report on the processes followed in amending the Powers and Privileges and Immunities of Parliament and Provincial Legislatures Act.
Members of the Committee pointed out instances where, for purposes of absolute accuracy, it would be preferable for the report to use the exact ...
Transport
Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill: public hearings day 3
23 May 2018
The Law Society of the Northern Provinces (LSNP) said that the Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill should be a balancing act between fair compensation and the affordability of the scheme in terms of available resources. Participating in the Portfolio Committee on Transport’s public hearings on the Bill, the LSNP ...
Transport
Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS) Bill: public hearings day 2
22 May 2018
The Black Lawyers’ Association (BLA) accepted that changes should be made to the Road Accident Fund (RAF), but did not agree with all the changes in the Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS). RABS was said to be unreasonable because it did not award general damages to victims of road accidents. ...
Transport
Department of Transport budget: Committee Report
8 May 2018
The Content adviser briefed the Committee on observations and recommendations contained in the Annual Performance Plan. Those were related to non-adherence of targets to SMART principles; board vacancies in entities; implementation of road safety programmes; plans for legislation submitted in the outer years of the Medium Term Strategic Framework; the ...
Powers and Privileges of Parliament
Powers, Privileges and Immunities of Parliament Amendment Bill: public submission
2 May 2018
Despite a late start and a lack of quorum, the Chairperson resolved the meeting continue in order to discuss the public submission on the draft Powers, Privileges and Immunities of Parliament and the Provincial Legislatures Amendment Bill. The Parliamentary Legal Advisor, noted several technical amendments which still had to be ...
Ad Hoc Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme
Election of Chairpersons; Committee Mandate; Medical Aid Scheme Act: Content Advisor/Reseacher input
2 May 2018
The Committee Secretary said the Ad Hoc Committee had been jointly established by the National Assembly (NA) and the National Council of Province (NCOP) to inquire into the Parliamentary and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme (Parmed) Act 28 of 1975. Because the meeting had started an hour late, it was decided ...