IMMIGRATION AND TRANSPORT ECONOMIC REGULATOR AMENDMENT BILLS LEAVE PARLIAMENT

IMMIGRATION AND TRANSPORT ECONOMIC REGULATOR AMENDMENT BILLS LEAVE PARLIAMENT

• 17 December 2025
• Parliament
• SA Legal Academy

Parliamentary papers have confirmed that the NCOP has passed a ‘B’ version of the Immigration Amendment Bill, as well the Economic Regulation of Transport Amendment Bill’s tabled version. Both Bills have been sent to President Cyril Ramaphosa for signature.

Introduced in April 2024, the Immigration Amendment Bill gives effect to Constitutional Court judgments delivered on 29 June 2017 and 30 October 2023 regarding illegal foreigners detained under section 34(1) of the principal statute (deportation and detention). In terms of the rulings:

• they should be ‘brought before a court in person, within 48 hours from the time of … (their) arrest’, and
• ‘the court … (should) determine whether it is in the interests of justice to order further detention, for purposes of deportation’.

SA Legal Academy’s 17 September 2025 report provides further information.

The Economic Regulation of Transport Amendment Bill corrects date-specific errors in a schedule to the principal statute, which joined the statute books in June 2024 but has yet to be operationalised.

SA Legal Academy’s May 2025 report provides further information, focusing on the Act itself.

• parliamentary papers
• Immigration Amendment Bill’s ‘B’ version
• SA Legal Academy report
• Economic Regulation of Transport Amendment Bill
• SA Legal Academy report

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