OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC COMMENT (open during May 2025 onwards)

OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC COMMENT (open during May 2025 onwards)

• 30 April 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 April 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:

• draft regulations on electricity transmission procurement planning (3 May 2025)
• draft amendments to the waste management regulations (4 May 2025)
• draft regulations on offshore bunkering (5 May 2025)
• proposals for extending Karoo National Park (6 May 2025)
• JSE simplification project interim outcomes (13 May 2025)
• social relief of distress grant continuation (14 May 2025)
• criminal justice system review discussion papers (14 May 2025)
• draft regulations, Upstream Petroleum Resources Development Act (14 May 2025)
• national payment system policy, regulatory proposals(15 May 2025)
• Competition Act: draft block exemption for healthcare sector (16 May 2025) (deadline changed twice, the first time in error)
• Council for Medical Schemes report on industry low-cost benefits option proposals (18 May 2025)
• capital markets draft conduct standard on short sales reporting, disclosure (19 May 2025)
• draft amendments to waste transportation regulations (22 May 2025)
• transformation fund draft concept document (28 May 2025)
• draft regulations on innovation spectrum frequency spectrum (30 May 2025)
• draft national radio frequency plan (30 May 2025)
• NHI draft fund governance regulations (4/5 June 2025)
• draft exemption for retail funds from Pension Funds Act amalgamation/transfer requirements (5 June 2025)
• construction industry health and safety, draft replacement regulations (12 June 2025)
• music industry draft policy and strategy (30 June 2025)
• local government White Paper review discussion document (30 June 2025)
• e-voting discussion document (30 September 2025)

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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