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NCOP Finance
Supply Chain Management Regulations under MFMA: Draft Amendment; Regulations on demarcation between health insurance and medical schemes: National Treasury briefings
15 Feb 2017
The National Treasury briefed the Committee on the Amendment to Supply Management Regulations under the Municipal Finance Management Act. Two amendments were made – to the definitions, and to regulation 44 that relates to the awarding of tenders by municipalities. The latter regulation said that the Supply Chain Management policy ...
NCOP Finance
Financial Sector Regulation Bill: briefing; Credit, Banking & Insurance Ombuds on Bill's impact
14 Feb 2017
National Treasury took the Committee through revisions to the FSRB, related to the Financial Sector Conduct Authority regulation and supervision of a financial institution’s conduct in relation to provision of credit under a credit agreement. This included the conduct standard in relation to a financial service, transactions becoming the buyer ...
Finance Standing Committee
Money Bills Amendment Procedure Act review: joint workshop
8 Feb 2017
Parliament’s Constitutional and Legal Services Office (CLSO) presented at the joint workshop to the Finance and Appropriations Standing and Select Committees. It noted that the National Assembly had passed a resolution in May 2016 that the Finance Standing Committee should review the Money Bills Act with a view to introduce ...
NCOP Finance
Financial Sector Regulation Bill and financial implications: National Treasury briefing
3 Feb 2017
National Treasury took the Committee through a presentation on the Financial Sector Regulation Bill (the Bill), drawing attention to comments made during the public hearings, the main areas of concern, the National Treasury response to those comments and the outline of the Bill. Substantive issues that had been raised during ...
NCOP Appropriations
MIG projects in Saldanha Bay Local Municipality: Western Cape Department of Local Government briefing
31 Jan 2017
The briefing by the Western Cape Department of Local Government was in two parts. The first section covered the expenditure performance of the Municipal Infrastructure Grant in the 2016/17; performance record; monitoring of expenditure of rollovers, and mitigation of challenges. Seven municipalities in Western Cape had an underspent balance. Challenges ...
NCOP Finance
City of Cape Town Metro IDP, LED and budget implementation
31 Jan 2017
The National Treasury noted that capital expenditure for the Western Cape and Cape Town City was below 90 percent. The City had an operating surplus of R2.2 billion. The City had to implement cost containment measures to generate cash for road infrastructure, water and electricity. The City had improved steadily ...
NCOP Appropriations
Adjustments Appropriation Bill [B16-2016] & Finance Bill [B21-2016]: consideration; Committee Report on MTBPS
8 Dec 2016
Report of the meeting to follow.
NCOP Finance
Tax Bills: adoption
7 Dec 2016
All four Tax Bills were considered and adopted without amendment. The DA objected to certain items in the Taxation Laws Amendment Bill and in the Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill, which were captured in the Committee Report.
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Adjustments Appropriation Bill; Finance Bill: briefing by National Treasury
1 Dec 2016
National Treasury briefed a joint meeting of the Standing and Select Committees on Appropriations on the 2016 Adjustments Appropriations Bill and the 2016 Finance Bill.
Members were informed about the different aspects of the Adjustments Appropriations Bill, which included unforeseeable and unavoidable expenditure, virements, roll-overs, self-financing expenditure, and declared unspent ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Protected Disclosures Amendment Bill: Department of Justice briefing; Justice Administered Fund Bill [B26-2015] adoption
30 Nov 2016
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development briefed the Committee on the Protected Disclosures Amendment Bill (the Bill), which was being introduced in an attempt to broaden the ambit of the Protected Disclosures Act (the Act). When the Act was originally being discussed, the South African Law Reform Commission had ...