WATER SERVICES: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE CALLS FOR INPUT ON AMENDMENT BILL

WATER SERVICES: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE CALLS FOR INPUT ON AMENDMENT BILL

• 02 February 2026
• Parliament
• SA Legal Academy

The National Assembly’s Water & Sanitation Committee has issued a notice calling for written submissions by 28 February 2026 on the National Water Services Amendment Bill.

Tabled in October 2025, according to a memorandum on the Bill’s objects, once passed by Parliament, enacted and operationalised it will:

• introduce ‘a requirement that water services can only be provided by an entity or mechanism … licensed to do so’
• make non-compliance with the principal statute and associated national norms and standards an offence, and
• introduce a water services licensing regime that:
  • ensures the accountability of water service providers by introducing contracting and performance management requirements, and
  • strengthens the ‘institutional reform and alignment of water boards’.

Please click the links below for more information:

• Bill
• committee notice
• October 2025 SA Legal Academy report on Bill

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