On 12 November 2013, Mr L T Landers, on behalf of the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development and in consultation with the Speaker, certified the Judicial Matters Third Amendment Bill, 2013 as an urgent matter in terms of Rule 241(5) and consequently the rules pertaining to prior notice of the introduction of a bill and the publication of the draft bill or an explanatory memorandum in the Gazette do not apply to the Judicial Matters Third Amendment Bill, 2013.