Dear All,
We have decided to combine this weeks Gazette Watch and Newsflash.
Please see below the notable compliance changes:
- Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act: Codes of Good Practice: Legal Sector Code: Correction;
- National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act: Regulations: Implementing and enforcing Priority Area Air Quality Management Plans: Comments invited;
- Various Medical changes including Medicines and Related Substances Act: Dispensing fee to be charged and annual Single Exit Price Adjustment of medicines and scheduled substances for the year 2023 and Pharmacy Act: Pharmacists providing Family Planning Services (Reproductive Health Services): Scope of practice;
- National Water Act: National Pricing Strategy for Water Use Charges: Revision.
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HEALTH AND SAFETY
Upgrade of outdated tobacco law on the way at last A bill seeking to tighten SA’s antismoking legislation and to regulate e-cigarettes is expected to be submitted to parliament before the end of the year. The Control of Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Bill has been in the pipeline since 2018 and has been staunchly opposed by the tobacco and e-cigarette industries. The government’s failure to process the bill has frustrated public health experts, who say SA has fallen behind global best practice. The 2008 Tobacco Products Control Amendment Act now in force has not been updated in more than a decade and has no measures for regulating new-generation products such as vapes. |
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Landmark ruling confirms ARB can make decisions on non-members’ advertising The Supreme Court of Appeal’s ruling that ARB can consider the advertising of members and non-members alike is a win for consumer protection. The court confirmed that the Advertising Regulatory Board is entitled to consider the advertising of non-members, and issue decisions on adverts created by agencies and brands that don’t belong to the industry body, for the guidance of its members.
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LABOUR
Massive change for passports in South Africa Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi says that the flexibility afforded to passport applications and collections in South Africa is being removed to protect the integrity of the document. The change follows high-profile cases of fraud and corruption involving passports in recent months, which have damaged the country’s reputation and brought the security of the South African passport into question.
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PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Information Regulator establishes enforcement committee The Information Regulator has established an Enforcement Committee to tackle matters related to the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) and the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA). The Enforcement Committee, chaired by Advocate Helen Fourie, with Simonè Margadie as alternative chairperson, comprises 14 independent experts from a wide array of professional backgrounds such as law, information security, education, finance accounting, auditing, actuarial science, forensics and criminal investigations.
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Alison and her great team.
INDEX
AGRICULTURE
SA battle of oranges: Tons of fruit stranded in EU
BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL
International Trade Administration Act: Export control: Amendment: Comments invited
International Trade Administration Act: Exportation of ferrous and non-ferrous metals waste and scrap metal: Comments invited
International Trade Administration Act: Conclusion of an investigation into alleged dumping of frozen-in bone portions of fowls
International Trade Administration Act: Import control: Amendment: Correction: Comments invited
International Trade Administration Act: Export control: Amendment: Correction: Comments invited
International Trade Administration Act: Exportation of ferrous and non-ferrous metals waste and scrap metal: Correction: Comments invited
International Trade Administration Act: Policy proposals on measures to restrict trade in ferrous and non-ferrous metals waste, scrap and semi-finished ferrous and non-ferrous metal products: Comments invited
International Trade Administration Act: Import control: Amendment: Comments invited
International Trade Administration Act: Automotive Production and Development Programme Phase 2: Amendments: Comments invited
International Trade Administration Act: Policy proposals on measures to restrict trade in ferrous and non-ferrous metals waste, scrap and semi-finished ferrous and non-ferrous metal products: Correction: Comments invited
B-BBEE
Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act: Codes of Good Practice: Legal Sector Code: Correction
COMPETITION
Rain ordered to retract Telkom merger statement
CUSTOMS AND EXCISE MOVEMENTS
Customs and Excise Act: Amendment of Schedule No. 1 Part 7A (No. 1/7A/3)
Customs and Excise Act: Amendment of Schedule No. 1 Part 2A (No. 1/2A/162)
Customs and Excise Act: Amendment of Schedule No. 1 Part 1 (No. 1/1/1688)
Customs and Excise Act: Amendment of Schedule No. 6 Part 1A (No. 6/1A/11)
ENVIRONMENTAL
National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act: Regulations: Implementing and enforcing Priority Area Air Quality Management Plans: Comments invited
ENERGY AND ELECTRICITY
Proposed new energy initiatives for South Africa – Is this the answer to loathsome loadshedding?
FINANCIAL MARKETS
Prescribed Rate of Interest Act: Prescribed rate of interest from 1 May 2022
HEALTH AND SAFETY
Upgrade of outdated tobacco law on the way at last
Department beefs up enforcement of Regulations
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Landmark ruling confirms ARB can make decisions on non-members’ advertising
LABOUR
Labour Relations Act: Intention to cancel registration of employers’ organisation: BEECA Cleaning Association: Comments invited
Massive change for passports in South Africa
MEASUREMENTS AND STANDARDS
Standards Act: Standards matters: Comments invited
MEDICAL
Medicines and Related Substances Act: Dispensing fee to be charged
Medicines and Related Substances Act: Annual Single Exit Price Adjustment of medicines and scheduled substances for the year 2023: Comments invited
Pharmacy Act: Pharmacists providing Family Planning Services (Reproductive Health Services): Scope of practice
MINING
Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act: Increase of pension benefits
PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Information Regulator establishes enforcement committee
PUBLIC SECTOR
National Archives and Records Service of South Africa Act: National Archives Advisory Council, Pretoria 2023-2025: Nominations invited
ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION
South African National Roads Agency Limited and National Roads Act: Declaration of existing Provincial Road R61 as National Road R61 Section 8: Tombo to Port St Johns
WATER
National Water Act: National Pricing Strategy for Water Use Charges: Revision: Comments invited
Water-use licence applications under the spotlight
OTHER
International Air Services Act: Grant/amendment of international air service licences: Comments invited
Criminal Procedure Act: Declaration of peace officers: Transnet
Drugs and Drug Trafficking Amendment Bill: Explanatory summary
Criminal and Related Matters Amendment Act: Commencement
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