OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC COMMENT (open during March 2025 onwards)

OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC COMMENT (open during March 2025 onwards)

• 28 February 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 March 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:

• IRBA draft monetary fine guidelines and fee proposals (3 March 2025)
• Competition Commission draft confidentiality guidelines (7 March 2025)
• National State Enterprises Bill (14 March 2025)
• draft regulations on wild abalone (16 March 2025)
• Competition Act: draft block exemption for healthcare sector (16 March 2025)
• Financial Intelligence Centre draft amending directives (21 March 2025) 
• draft code of good practice for dismissals (23 March 2025)
• supplementary discussion document on subscription broadcasting services (24 March 2025)
• fiscal framework and revenue proposals (24 March 2025)
• Banks Act draft directive (25 March 2025)
• Division of Revenue Bill (National Assembly Appropriations Committee) (28 March 2025)
• draft Student Debt Relief Bill (30 March 2025)
• criminal justice system review discussion papers (31 March 2025)
• Banks Act draft directive (31 March 2025)
• discussion document on reserved postal services review (10 April 2025)
• proposals for a new Remuneration of Public Office Bearers Amendment Bill (12 April 2025)
• Division of Revenue Bill, Appropriation Bill and Eskom Debt Relief Amendment Bill (NCOP Appropriations Committee) (14 April 2025)
• proposed extensions to four national parks (22 April 2025)
• proposed extension to Agulhas National Park (29 April 2025)
• discussion paper on the need for ‘a generic mediation statute’ (30 April 2025)
• discussion document on domesticating UN disability rights convention (30 April 2025)
• SARB national payment system discussion document and draft directives (30 April 2025)
• draft regulations on offshore bunkering (5 May 2025)
• proposals for extending Karoo National Park (6 May 2025)
• transformation fund draft concept document (7 May 2025)
• JSE simplification project interim outcomes (13 May 2025)
• social relief of distress grant continuation (14 May 2025)
• Council for Medical Schemes report on industry low-cost benefits option proposals (18 May 2025)
• draft regulations on innovation spectrum frequency spectrum (30 May 2025)
• NHI draft fund governance regulations (4/5 June 2025)
• construction industry health and safety, draft replacement regulations (12 June 2025)

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