Deputy Chairperson, thank you very, very much for this opportunity. The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, is briefly called OPCAT.
Chair and members of this august House, on 5 March 2019, the following papers were referred to the select committee for consideration and report. Firstly, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, tabled in terms of section 231(2) of the Constitution, 1996; and secondly, the explanatory memorandum to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The rest of this report is reflected in the ATC. With your indulgence, may I move to recommendations?
Having considered the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment tabled in terms of section 231(2) of the Constitution, 1996, and the explanatory memorandum to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the committee recommends that the National Council of Provinces resolves to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, shortly called OPCAT. On behalf of the chair of the select committee, we so submit.
Debate concluded.
Question put: That the Report be adopted.
IN FAVOUR: Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, North West, Western Cape.
Report accordingly adopted in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.