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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: RECENT REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS
- 31 March 2025
- In the Spotlight
- SA Legal Academy
In the absence of any significant progress on the legislation now before Parliament, SA Legal Academy has prepared a list of regulatory developments announced by way of Government Gazette notices published shortly before close of business on 31 March 2025.
The South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) has issued a media statement extending the public commentary period for several discussion documents released in February 2025. The deadline for submissions is now 14 May 2025. As SA Legal Academy has already reported, the papers concerned focus on:
- appropriate (alternative) dispute resolution in criminal matters
- non-trial resolutions
- the arrest dispensation, and
- the bail dispensation.
Please click the links below for more information:
- SALRC media statement
- SA Legal Academy report
The Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) has issued directive prescribing the obligations to be met by ‘a person or institution … aware of a reporting failure’ under the 2001 FIC Act in the context of:
- cash threshold requirements
- terrorist property
- ‘unusual’ transactions, and
- international funds transfers.
The new obligations are immediately applicable.
- FIC directive
Regulations are now in force on the management of mercury in terms of 1998 National Environmental Management Act requirements. First released in draft form in March 2023 for public comment and since frequently revised, among other things the new regulations provide for:
- the phasing out of mercury-added products
- the phasing down of dental amalgam
- restrictions on mercury used in ‘manufacturing processes’, and
- the storage of mercury, its compounds and mixtures containing mercury.
Please click the link below for more information:
- mercury management regulations
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has gazetted regulations on the conveyance of mail under the 1998 Postal Services Act. This follows a review of the prevailing legislation summarised in the accompanying findings document, which was first published in March 2024, as SA Legal Academy reported at the time.
- regulations
- SA Legal Academy report
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