Have Your Say!
Local Government: Municipal Electoral
Amendment Bill [B27 – 2010]
The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs (National Assembly) encourages interested individuals and organisations to submit written comments on the above-mentioned Bill. The Bill seeks to:
- Amend the Local Government: Municipal Electoral Act, 2000, so as to supplement
provisions relating to the election timetable and insert a related Schedule to the Act;
- Amend provisions relating to nomination of candidates;
- Provide for central payments of deposits by a party which contests election in more than
one municipality;
- Empower presiding officers to alter boundaries of voting stations, if necessary;
- Revise provisions relating to number of party agents at a voting station;
- Clarify the rights and responsibilities relating to assistance to certain voters;
- Provide for special votes and the procedure related thereto;
- Enhance the powers and functions of the Electoral Commission and the Electoral Court in
relation to the determination and declaration of the result of an election;
- Provide for further regulation of objections material to the result of an election.
Public hearings will take place on 14 September 2010 at Parliament.
Written submissions must be addressed to: The Secretary to Parliament of the Republic of
South Africa, PO Box 15, Cape Town 8000, for attention: Mr Eddy Mathonsi and must reach
Parliament by no later than 10 September 2010 at 12:00. Please indicate your interest in
making a verbal presentation.
Enquiries: Mr Eddy Mathonsi, tel: 021 403-3826, cell: 084 630 1992/083 709 8523, fax: 086 655 0502 or e-mail: [email protected]
Issued by: Mr B D Martins, MP, Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs.
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