LAND COURT BILL PASSED BY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

LAND COURT BILL PASSED BY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

• 14 June 2023
• Property Law
• SA Legal Academy

The National Assembly has passed a ‘D’ version of the Land Court Bill, which will be sent to the NCOP for concurrence.

Once operationalised, the Bill will establish a ‘a properly constituted and capacitated’ specialist Land Court ‘to deal with all land-related matters as regulated by various Acts of Parliament’. Its judgments will be appealable to the full bench of that Court.

The Bill also:

• provides for a ‘cheaper and speedier alternative dispute resolution mechanism in the form of mediation’, and
• ‘makes provision for future legislation (new or amending … ) to confer jurisdiction on the Land Court as and when the need arises’.

According to a memorandum on the Bill’s objects, this is expected to ‘facilitate the expeditious disposal of cases and contribute towards the development of appropriate jurisprudence in relation to land matters’.

• Bill’s ‘D’ version
• minutes of the National Assembly sitting at which the Bill was passed
• Parliament's media statement on the Bill (scroll down to the statement's closing paragraphs)

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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