GENERAL INTELLIGENCE LAWS AMENDMENT BILL: CALL FOR WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE LAWS AMENDMENT BILL: CALL FOR WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS

• 18 December 2023
• Parliament
• SA Legal Academy

Please note: On 23 January 2024, the committee issued a back-dated media statement extending the deadline for submissions to 15 February 2024.

The ad hoc committee established by the National Assembly to process the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill has called for written submissions on its contents by 31 January 2024.

A notice to that effect was posted on the Parliamentary Monitoring Group (PMG) website on Sunday 17 December 2023.

Tabled in November 2023, the Bill is underpinned by:

• recommendations following a review of the State Security Agency, which was conducted by a high level panel appointed expressly for that task
• the 1994 White Paper on Intelligence, and
• international benchmark studies of key intelligence services ‘architecture’.

This is according to a memorandum on the Bill’s objects.

Once passed by Parliament, enacted and operationalised, the proposed new piece of legislation will:

• establish separate foreign and domestic intelligence agencies
• provide for the legislative functions of the state’s ‘signals intelligence capacity’, and
• ‘re-establish the South African National Academy of Intelligence’.

Please click the links below for more information:

• Bill
• committee notice
• review panel report
• White Paper on Intelligence

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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