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MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY: AMENDMENT BILL HEADS TO PARLIAMENT
- 14 October 2024
- Minerals & Energy
- SA Legal Academy
Please note: Parliamentary papers have confirmed that, on 29 October 2024, the draft Bill was submitted and referred to the National Assembly and NCOP committees concerned for information and planning purposes only. It has yet to be certified by the Office of the State Law Adviser and formally tabled.
An explanatory summary of the Mine Health & Safety Amendment Bill’s overarching objectives has been gazetted in anticipation of formal introduction in Parliament. This follows Cabinet’s recent approval of the Bill for tabling, which was announced in a media statement among other things drawing attention to provisions seeking to:
- streamline administrative processes
- strengthen enforcement
- reinforce offences and penalties, and
- reduce fatalities, injuries and occupational diseases.
Against that backdrop, according to the Bill’s explanatory summary its proposals:
- include measures to ‘strengthen managerial responsibility and accountability’
- revise sections of the principal statute on the composition of the Mine Health & Safety Council, and
- ‘repeal the establishment of the Mining Qualifications Authority’.
The proposed new piece of legislation was released in draft form in June 2022 for public comment. The version approved for formal introduction in Parliament is available but has yet to be certified by the Office of the State Law Adviser.
- explanatory summary
- uncertified Bill ready for tabling
- Cabinet statement
- June 2022 draft Bill
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch
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