ELECTRICITY SUPPLY CONSTRAINTS: STATE OF DISASTER LIFTED

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY CONSTRAINTS: STATE OF DISASTER LIFTED

• 05 April 2023
• State of Disaster (energy)
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Co-operative Governance & Traditional Affairs has gazetted notices:

• revoking the classification of South Africa’s ‘severe energy supply constraints’ as a national disaster
• lifting the ensuing state of disaster declaration, and
• repealing ‘all regulations and directions’ issued in that context.

According to a media statement on the decision, ‘government will, through the Energy Crisis Committee, continue to engage, co-operate and co-ordinate its actions to reduce and eradicate load shedding using existing legislation and contingency arrangements’. These include:

• ‘a range of interventions and support measures introduced by departments as an accelerated response at the time the state of disaster was declared’, and
• ‘measures already taken to protect critical infrastructure, facilitate emergency energy generation and protect consumers in terms of (the) relevant competition law’.

More information can be found in the documents below:

• classification revokation notice
• state of disaster termination notice
• media statement

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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