OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC COMMENT (open during August 2025 onwards)

OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC COMMENT (open during August 2025 onwards)

• 31 July 2025
• Opportunities for Public Comment
• SA Legal Academy

The list below features key national government proposals and new legislation still open for public comment during August 2025 and beyond.

Please note:

• the documents are listed according to the date by which input should be received, beginning with deadlines scheduled to expire first
• input deadlines are indicated in parenthesis next to each document
• each link provided take readers to a summary with the source document/s
• where the original deadline has been extended, the date is highlighted in yellow
• where the original deadline has been brought forward, the date is emboldened in red
• the list is updated throughout the month, with new opportunities highlighted in blue
• expired opportunities for comment are only removed at the month-end

Full list:

• revised draft offshore ship-to-ship transfer regulations (3 August 2025)
• proposed revision of auditors code of conduct (8 August 2025)
• electronic communications: draft amendments to numbering plan regulations (11 August 2025)
• electronic communications: draft digital terrestrial TV regulations (11 August 2025)
• draft banking industry roadmap for implementing credit risk management reforms (11 August 2025)
• draft Mineral & Petroleum Resources Development Amendment Bill (13 August 2025)
• draft Constitution 22nd Amendment Bill on ministerial appointment process (24 August 2025)
• draft regulations on transporting live animals for export (25 August 2025)
• draft Constitution Amendment Bill (land reform) (27 August 2025)
• draft nationally determined climate change mitigating contrbution report (29 August 2025)
• draft Constitution Amendment Bill (election of public representatives) (30 August 2025)\
• Competition Act: draft export-related block exemption from certain sections (1 September 2025)
• draft regulations on state-run school learner admission, school capacity (5 September 2025)
• draft regulations on communal propery associations (7 September 2025)
• draft regulations banning plastic microbeads (7 September 2025)
• draft amendments to Liquor Act regulations (7 September 2025)
• draft amendments National Credit Act regulations (12 September 2025)
• draft Higher Education & Training Further Amendment Bill (15 September 2025)
• draft White Paper on audio and audiovisual media services (26 September 2025)
• e-voting discussion document (30 September 2025)
• draft carbon budgeting and emissions planning regulations (30 September 2025)
• draft accounting standard on social benefits liability verification (14 November 2025) 

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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