ELECTORAL AMENDMENT BILL: PARLIAMENT GRANTED UNTIL 28 FEBRUARY TO COMPLETE ITS WORK

ELECTORAL AMENDMENT BILL: PARLIAMENT GRANTED UNTIL 28 FEBRUARY TO COMPLETE ITS WORK

• 23 January 2023
• Parliament
• SA Legal Academy

The Constitutional Court has agreed to allow Parliament until 28 February 2023 to complete its work on the Electoral Amendment Bill. This was announced on 23 January in a media statement among other things noting that the original 2020 ruling ‘gave Parliament until 10 June 2022 to rectify the constitutional defects in the Act and to make provision for independent candidates to contest elections to the National Assembly and the provincial legislatures’.

On 9 December 2022, responding to Parliament’s ‘urgent application’ three days earlier for an extension to the already expired deadline, the Constitutional Court agreed to allow the legislature until 31 January to complete its work – pending a ‘final determination’.

Passed by the National Assembly in October 2022 and by the NCOP the following month –  subject to a long list of recommended changes – the Bill was returned to the National Assembly’s Home Affairs Committee for concurrence. As a result, stakeholders were given another opportunity to comment. The deadline for submissions was set at 27 January 2023.

• latest media statement
• 9 December 2022 media statement
• Electoral Amendment Bill, ‘B’ version
• December 2022 committee notice calling for input on the proposed new clauses
• the NCOP’s full list of recommended amendments

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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