ATC190307: Report of the Portfolio Committee on Communications on the Films and Publications Amendment Bill [B 37B – 2015] (National Assembly – sec 75), dated 7 March 2019

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Report of the Portfolio Committee on Communications on the Films and Publications Amendment Bill [B 37B – 2015] (National Assembly – sec 75), dated 7 March 2019:
 

The Portfolio Committee on Communications, having considered the Films and Publications Amendment Bill [B 37B – 2015] and proposed amendments of the National Council of Provinces (Announcements, Tablings and Committee Reports, 22 November 2018, p 59), referred to the committee, reports the Bill with amendments [B 37C – 2015], as follows:

 

CLAUSE 6

 

1. On page 6, in line 15, after ‘‘chairperson’’, to insert ‘‘, and such chairperson must be a retired judge of the High Court of South Africa’’.

 

1. On page 6, from line 18, to omit subsection (3).

 

CLAUSE 12

 

1. Clause rejected.

 

NEW CLAUSE

 

1. That the following be a new clause:

 

Amendment of section 13 of Act 65 of 1996, as amended by section 15 of Act 3 of 2009

 

12. Section 13 of the principal Act is hereby amended—

(a) by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsection:

‘‘(1) The expenditure in connection with the performance of the functions, the exercise of the powers and the carrying out of the duties of the Board, Council, Appeal Tribunal, Enforcement Committee and an advisory panel shall be defrayed from money appropriated by Parliament for [the] that purpose.’’; and

(b) by the insertion after subsection (1) of the following subsection:

‘‘(1A) All monies lawfully acquired by the Board in the performance of its functions must be utilised to achieve the objects of this Act.’’

 

CLAUSE 15

 

1. On page 11, from line 40, to omit subparagraphs (i) and (ii) and to substitute the following subparagraphs:

 

‘‘(i) explicit sexual conduct which violates or shows disrespect for the right to human dignity of any person;

(ii) bestiality, incest, rape or conduct or an act which is degrading of human beings;’’.

 

CLAUSE 17

 

1. On page 12, from line 20, to omit subparagraphs (i) and (ii) and to substitute the following subparagraphs:

 

‘‘(i) explicit sexual conduct which violates or shows disrespect for the right to human dignity of any person;

(ii) bestiality, incest, rape, conduct or an act which is degrading of human beings;’’.

 

CLAUSE 19

 

1. On page 16, in line 6, to omit ‘‘two years’’ and to substitute ‘‘one year’’.

 

CLAUSE 34

 

1. On page 22, in line 47, to omit ‘‘2015’’ and to substitute ‘‘2019’’.

 

 

 

 

Report to be considered.