PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION AND STATISTICS AMENDMENT BILLS TABLED

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION AND STATISTICS AMENDMENT BILLS TABLED

• 14 October 2023
• Parliament
• SA Legal Academy

Please note: On 16 October 2023, the certified Public Service Commission Bill and certified Statistics Amendment Bill were published by the Parliamentary Monitoring Group. 

According to parliamentary papers, the Public Service Commission Bill and Statistics Amendment Bill have been formally introduced in Parliament. However, at the time of writing only draft versions of these Bills were available. For information and planning purposes, the draft Public Service Commission Bill appears to have been submitted simultaneously with the certified version.

A memorandum on the objects of the Public Service Commission Bill includes a reference to provisions intended to strengthen the institution’s independence – among other things by addressing various administrative and governance loopholes in the Public Service Commission Act, 1997, which it seeks to repeal. Once operationalised, the proposed new piece of legislation will expand the Commission’s mandate to include local government and state entities.

The purpose of the Statistics Amendment Bill is to ‘strengthen co-ordination and enhance collaboration amongst data producers and data users’. More details are available in an earlier SA Legal Academy report, to which a link is provided below.

• draft Public Service Commission Bill (as released in June 2023 for public comment)  
• draft Statistics Amendment Bill
• parliamentary papers confirming the Bills’ formal introduction (page 2)
• SA Legal Academy report on the draft Statistics Amendment Bill

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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