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            <title>Local Government: Municipal Finance Management Bill (B 1-2005)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To regulate financial management in the local sphere of government; to require that all revenue, expenditure, assets and liabilities of municipalities and municipal entities are managed economically, efficiently and effectively; to determine the responsibilities of persons entrusted with local sphere financial management; to regulate municipal borrowing; to make provision for the handling of financial emergencies in municipalities; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
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            <title>Judicial Matters Amendment Bill (B 2-2005)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To amend the Insolvency Act, 1936, so as to insert a definition of Minister; to enable the Cabinet member responsible for the administration of justice to determine policy for, and further regulate, the appointment of curatores bonis, trustees, provisional trustees and co-trustees by the Masters of the High Courts; to amend the Administration of Estates Act, 1965, so as to provide for the appointment of a Chief Master of the High Courts; to amend the Companies Act, 1973, so as to enable the Cabinet member responsible for the administration of justice to determine policy for, and further regulate, the appointment of liquidators, provisional liquidators, co-liquidators and provisional judicial managers by the Masters of the High Courts; to amend the Close Corporations Act, 1984, so as to enable the Cabinet member responsible for the administration of justice to determine policy for, and further regulate, the appointment of liquidators by the Masters of the High Courts; and to provide for matters connected therewith.]]></description>
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            <title>Judicial Matters Amendment Bill (B 2B-2005)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To amend-
• the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1944, so as to provide for the disposal of part heard cases by permanently appointed magistrates who vacate the office of magistrate;
• the Administration of Estates Act, 1965, so as to amend the definition of "Master"; and to provide that the Chief Master is subject to the control,
direction and supervision of the Minister;
• the Companies Act, 1973, so as to effect a technical correction;
• the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977, so as to effect a technical correction;
• the Attorneys Act, 1979, so as to allow a council to exempt an attorney from the attendance of a legal practice management course in certain
circumstances;
• the Right of Appearance in Courts Act, 1995, so as to provide that an attorney that has been granted the right to appear in a High Court may
do so in any court in the Republic;
• the Special Investigating Units and Special Tribunals Act, 1996, so as to provide for the delegation by the head of a Special Investigating Unit of
his or her powers and functions in certain circumstances;
• the Maintenance Act, 1998, so as to further regulate the appointment or designation of officers in the Department as maintenance investigators;
• the Debt Collectors Act, 1998, so as to amend the definition of "debt collector"; to correct an erroneous reference; to provide anew for the
keeping of registers by the Debt Collectors Council; to provide for the cancellation of the registration of a debt collector; and to further regulate
the provisions relating to trust accounts of debt collectors;
• the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act, 2000, so as to make provision for the publishing of a code of good administrative conduct by
notice in the Gazette; and to extend the period of time within which the code of good administrative conduct must be made;
• the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, 2000, so as to extend the application of the Act expressly to include
intersexed persons within the definition of sex;
• the Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Act, 2002, so as to clarify the provision regarding the surrender of
a person to the International Criminal Court; and
• the Judicial Matters Second Amendment Act, 2003, so as to repeal a redundant provision; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
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            <title>Intergovernmental Relations Framework Bill (B 3-2005)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To establish a framework for the national government, provincial governments and local governments to promote and facilitate intergovernmental relations; to provide for mechanisms and procedures to facilitate the settlement of intergovernmental disputes; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
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            <title>Intergovernmental Relations Framework Bill (B 3B-2005)</title>
            <link>https://www.polity.org.za/article/intergovernmental-relations-framework-bill-b-3b2005-2005-01-01</link>
            <description><![CDATA[To establish a framework for the national government, provincial governments and local governments to promote and facilitate intergovernmental relations; to provide for mechanisms and procedures to facilitate the settlement of intergovernmental disputes; and to provide for matters connected therewith.]]></description>
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            <title>Co-operatives Bill (B 4B-2005)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To provide forthe
formation and registration of co-operatives;
the establishment of a Co-operatives Advisory Board;
the winding up of co-operatives;
the repeal of Act No. 91 of 1981;
and matters connected therewith.]]></description>
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            <category>2005</category>
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            <title>Portfolio Committee Amendments to Cooperatives Bill (B 4A-2005)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[1. On page 3, in line 14, to omit "powers" and to substitute "functions".
2. On page 3, in line 21, to omit "Powers" and to substitute "Functions".]]></description>
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            <title>Co-operatives Bill (B 4-2005)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To provide for—
the formation and registration of co-operatives;
the establishment of a Co-operatives Advisory Board;
the winding up of co-operatives;
the repeal of Act No. 91 of 1981;
and matters connected therewith.]]></description>
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