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OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC COMMENT (open during December 2025 onwards)
- 30 November 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 December 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 takes 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:
- carbon credit market development proposals (1 December 2025)
- draft policy framework for small business incubation (5 December 2025)
- revised draft national radio frequency plan (11 December 2025)
- draft entrepeneurship development strategy, implementation plan (11 December 2025)
- Prudential Authority draft directive under Banks Act, interest rate risk (15 December 2025)
- Merchant Shipping Act draft regulatory proposals (15 December 2025)
- draft Bill domesticating UN Apartheid Convention (15 December 2025)
- draft amendments to Liquor Products Act regulations (20 December 2025)
- Competition Commission draft guidelines (minority shareholder protection) (20 December 2025)
- draft amendments to Legal Practice Council rules (21 December 2025)
- draft IPID Act regulations (24 December 2025)
- draft regulations on state-run school learner admission, school capacity (5 January 2026)
- draft proposals for possible improvements to various GRAP standards (9 January 2026)
- draft rules on Competition Commission divestiture recommendations process (11 January 2026)
- national minimum wage report and recommendations (12 January 2026)
- revised draft fracking regulations (13 January 2026)
- Prince Edward Islands environmental management proposals (21 January 2026)
- draft amendments to planning and performance management regulations (21 January 2026)
- draft amendment to Magistrates’ Courts rules affecting land eviction appeals (23 January 2026)
- Intergovernmental, Monitoring, Support & Interventions Bill (23 January 2026)
- draft amendments to local government regulations on political party broadcasts, advertisements (23 January 2026)
- draft General Finance Laws (Official Benchmarks & Procurement) Amendment Bill (23 January 2026)
- Hate Crimes Act, draft regulations (28 January 2026)
- ICASA inquiry into individual network service licensing (30 January 2026)
- online gambling discussion document (30 January 2026)
- Defence and Military Discipline Supplementary Measures Amendment Bills (31 January 2026)
- draft revised White Paper on immigration, citizenship and refugee protection (31 January 2026)
- real estate investment trusts company proposals (31 January 2026)
- draft revised OTC derivatives reporting requirements (3 February 2026)
- draft regulations on Stockholm Convention organic pollutants (4 February 2026)
- draft GRAP for principals and agents (13 February 2026)
- draft regulations for traditional courts (13 February 2026)
- draft directive on additional FICA accountable insitution registration information requirements (13 February 2026)
- draft revised international mobile telecommunications roadmap (16 February 2025)
- draft Land Court rules (27 February 2026)
- draft amendments to Supreme, High and Magistrates’ Courts rules (27 February 2026)
- draft groundwater resource management regulations (1 March 2026)
- draft waste management strategy (6 March 2026)
- proposed new High Court rule on preparing and filing heads of argument (31 March 2026)
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