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Justice and Correctional Services
Drugs and Drug Trafficking Amendment Bill: adoption; Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: Department response to submissions; with Deputy Minister
21 Sep 2022
The Committee considered and adopted the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Amendment Bill in this virtual meeting and the accompanying report.
The purpose of the Bill is to amend the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act, 1992, to repeal the Minister’s delegated plenary legislative powers to amend Schedules. The effect thereof ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Land Court Bill: adoption; Drugs and Drug Trafficking Amendment Bill: public hearings & Department response
20 Sep 2022
The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services considered and adopted the report on the Land Court Bill.
The purpose of the Bill is to provide for the establishment of a Land Court and a Land Court of Appeal, make provision for the administration and ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Land Court Bill: finalisation of A-list
14 Sep 2022
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development presented the latest working document on the Land Court Bill. It included amendments to the following clauses: Clause 8, which dealt with the appointment of judges to the Land Court; and clause 17, which dealt with appeals.
With clause 8, an amendment ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: exclusion of public input from summary of submissions, with Deputy Minister
9 Sep 2022
The Committee was originally supposed to meet so that the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development could share its response to the submissions on the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill. However, they were informed that several submissions were excluded from the summary that was ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: Department response to submissions, with Deputy Minister
7 Sep 2022
In this virtual meeting, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development briefed the Committee on its response to the submissions received on the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill.
The Department also presented the latest working document of the Bill. The working document highlighted the ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Land Court Bill: deliberations
6 Sep 2022
Land Court Bill – Working Document 4: 6 September 2022 (Awaited document)
In this virtual meeting, the legal advisors in the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development took the Committee through the proposed amendments to the Land Court Bill.
It was proposed that Subclause 4, Clause 8, be moved ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Land Court Bill: deliberations; International Conventions: DoJ&CD briefing; with Deputy Minister
31 Aug 2022
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance
The Portfolio Committee received a briefing in a virtual meeting from the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development on two international conventions -- the International Convention ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Bills with Constitutional Court deadlines: Parliamentary Legal Services briefing
24 Aug 2022
The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services received a briefing from Parliamentary Legal Services on bills with Constitutional Court deadlines.
There were two matters where the suspension of orders was lapsing in December 2022. With Sonke Gender Justice NPC v President of the Republic of South Africa and ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Traditional Courts Bill: adoption; National Council for Correctional Services appointment, with Deputy Minister
8 Jun 2022
In this virtual meeting, the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services considered the names put forward by the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, for appointment to the National Council for Correctional Services (NCCS).
In line with Section 83 of the Correctional Services Act (CSA) ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Land Court Bill; Traditional Court Bill: Judges & Magistrates remuneration, with Deputy Minister
7 Jun 2022
Land Court Bill working doc – No working document done on this day - Vhoni
In this virtual meeting, the Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development briefed the Committee on the determination of salaries of judges and magistrates. The Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office-bearers recommended ...