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Justice and Correctional Services
Maintenance Amendment Bill [B16-2014]: credit bureau / electronic service provider deliberations
26 Mar 2015
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development took the Committee through the revised drafting of clauses 1, 2, 4, 7, 11 and 17 of the Maintenance Amendment Bill.
Members were concerned that the Committee’s position on clause 2, which had to do with the costs of getting information from electronic ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act Amendment Bill [B18-2014]: Department response to submissions; Legal Aid SA submission
25 Mar 2015
Legal Aid South Africa’s position on the Bill was generally acceptance of all of the clauses and the same applied for its position on the suggestion that clause 7 be amended to place a procedural and financial burden on the state to apply for a child to have their name ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act Amendment Bill: public hearings Day 5
24 Mar 2015
The core of the submissions are as follows:
Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
The Congress was of the view that in line with traditional values children should not be engaging in sexual activities, before they are ready to do so. It however felt that a Bill was an ...
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 3
10 Mar 2015
The core of each submission was as follows:
Community Law Centre
This submission, which was endorsed by a further 20 organisations, argued that the criminalisation of consensual sexual activity caused secondary trauma to affected children, shuts down communicative links with people who are in a position to educate children about ...
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
Determination of Remuneration of Judges and Magistrates
18 Feb 2015
The Committee adopted the determination from the Independent Commission on Remuneration of Public Office Bearers recommending an increase of 6% to magistrates and judges who earn below one million and 5% to those that earn above with effect from April 2014. The lowest rank magistrate will earn R788 155 while ...