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50 Laws & Regulations
Construction Regulations, 2014
South Africa · Regulation
ConstructionLabour / ImmigrationAmended
Implements the Occupational Health and Safety Act specifically for construction work, allocating statutory health-and-safety duties among the client, designer,…
Currency and Exchanges Act 9 of 1933
South Africa · Law / Act
Foreign Exchange / Capital ControlsAmended
The statutory basis for South Africa's exchange-control regime, empowering the executive to make regulations concerning currency, banking and exchanges (section…
Customs and Excise Act 91 of 1964
South Africa · Law / Act
TaxAmended
Levies customs and excise duties, the fuel levy, Road Accident Fund levy, air passenger tax and environmental levy, and controls importation/export/manufacture/…
Deeds Registries Act 47 of 1937
South Africa · Law / Act
Land / Real Estate / Land UseSecurity / CollateralAmended
Establishes deeds registries and governs the registration architecture for transfer of ownership, mortgage bonds, servitudes and other registrable real rights o…
Determination of Merger Thresholds and Method of Calculation
South Africa · Regulation
CompetitionIn Force
Fixes the turnover/asset-value thresholds determining whether a merger is intermediate or large and requires notification to the South African competition autho…
Electricity Regulation Act 4 of 2006
South Africa · Law / Act
Sector RegulationAmended
South Africa's launch-level electricity-sector framework, establishing the statutory licensing, tariff, regulatory and enforcement architecture administered by…
Electricity Regulation Amendment Act 38 of 2024
South Africa · Law / Act
Sector RegulationPartially In Force
Amends the Electricity Regulation Act 4 of 2006 to restructure South Africa's electricity market: provides for a Transmission System Operator (TSO) to perform t…
Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2014
South Africa · Regulation
Environmental / PermittingAmended
Prescribes the procedural pathways for seeking environmental authorisation under NEMA: appointment/independence of the environmental assessment practitioner, pu…
Exchange Control Regulations, 1961
South Africa · Regulation
Foreign Exchange / Capital ControlsAmended
An independently operative implementing instrument translating the parent Currency and Exchanges Act's regulation-making power into restrictions, consent requir…
Expropriation Act 63 of 1975
South Africa · Law / Act
Land / Real Estate / Land UseIn Force
The current operative predecessor expropriation framework at the research cut-off: notices, vesting, possession, compensation, mortgaged-property treatment, wit…
