ATC180905: Report of the Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform on the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill [B 19 – 2017], dated 05 September 2018

Rural Development and Land Reform

Report of the Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform on the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill [B 19 – 2017], dated 05 September 2018.
 

The Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform having considered the subject of the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill [B 19 – 2017](  (National Assembly – Section 76), referred to it and classified by the Joint Tagging Mechanism (JTM) as a Section 76 Bill, reports the Bill [B19B - 2017] with the following amendments:

 

 

CLAUSE 2

 

1. On page 2, in line 18, after “Section”, to omit “11” and to substitute it with “6”.

 

CLAUSE 5

1. Clause rejected.

 

NEW CLAUSE

 

1. That the following be a new Clause 5:

“Insertion of section 16A in Act 22 of 1994

5.          The following section is hereby inserted after section 16 of the principal Act:

“Processing of claims

16A.     (1)         Upon the finalisation or referral in terms of section 14 to the Court of all claims lodged on or before 31 December 1998, the Chief Land Claims Commissioner shall certify in writing that such claims have been finalised or referred to the Court, and shall publish a notice in the Gazette and in the media circulating nationally and in the province, stating the date on which the Commission shall start processing claims lodged—

1. from 1 July 2014 until 28 July 2016; and
2. in terms of the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act, 2017.

(2)        Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in subsection (1), when processing claims lodged on or before 31 December 1998, the Commission may on a case by case basis and where it would be in the interest of justice to do so, consider a claim contemplated in paragraphs (a) or (b) of subsection (1)  in order to investigate the merits of a claim lodged on or before 31 December 1998.”.’’.

 

CLAUSE 6

 

1. On page 4, in line 19, after “[three]” to omit “six” and substitute with “12”.

    Report to be considered.