Chairperson, another salient amendment is that of section 72(3) of the principal Act, proposed in clause 14 of the Bill, which will allow the banks the flexibility, subject to exemption by the registrar, to use their liquid assets for purposes of intraday accommodation at the Reserve Bank discount window. Such utilisation will be in harmony with the prevailing practice in the national payment system. The DP has no problem in supporting this Bill.
Before I sit, I would like to take this opportunity to implore the Minister to speedily address the gender issue, which has been found wanting in the framing of the principal Act. I am glad that the Minister has already alluded to this deficiency and promised to address it.
At the last meeting of the Select Committee on Finance, there was a protracted debate on why the gender issue had not been attended to in the three Bills we had debated. Despite defensive submissions by the law adviser, the chairperson Dorothy Mahlangu, whom members have just heard, remained unimpressed and took an understandably dim view of the delay in addressing this. I beseech Minister Manuel to take appropriate steps to repair the shortcoming, lest we incur the wrath of some 52% of our electorate, a scenario that would be too ghastly to contemplate. Thank you. [Applause.]
I will now take Mr Moosa's question. [Laughter.]