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CYBER SECURITY, LAND INVASION BILLS REVIVED
- 30 October 2024
- Parliament
- SA Legal Academy
The Constitution 20th Amendment Bill and Prevention of Illegal Eviction from & Unlawful Occupation of Land Amendment Bill have been revived. Both private members’ Bills, they were prepared on behalf of the DA’s Glynnis Breytenbach and Emma Powell respectively. Tabled in 2023, neither Bill was considered before the previous Parliament rose for the May 2024 elections, when both Bills lapsed.
The Constitution 20th Amendment Bill seeks to establish an independent ‘cyber commissioner’ that, over time, would replace the Information Regulator. This is according to a memorandum on the Bill’s objects, which also refers to a plethora of inadequacies in existing legislation and plaguing the state’s prevailing cyber security system.
The Prevention of Illegal Eviction from & Unlawful Occupation of Land Amendment Bill seeks to provide for:
- punitive measures for anyone found to have incited or promoted an unlawful land occupation, and
- regarding the courts:
- explicit criteria to be considered during proceedings before granting an eviction order
- the power to make an alternative accommodation order, and
- in such instances, for the eviction order to specify the period for which the local, provincial or national government authority concerned would need to provide alternative accommodation or land.
Although not a single private member’s Bill tabled by the DA has ever progressed beyond the ‘motion of desirability’ step in committee procedure when considering new legislation, this may change under a government of national unity.
- Constitution 20th Amendment Bill
- Prevention of Illegal Eviction from & Unlawful Occupation of Land Amendment Bill
- National Assembly minutes reflecting the decision to revive each Bill (please note: the revived Constitution Amendment Bill is the 20th, not the 21st)
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch
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