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Money Bills Amendment Procedure and Related Matters Act, 2009 (Act No. 9 of 2009)

12. National adjustments budget

 

(1) The Minister may table a national adjustments budget as envisaged in section 30 of the Public Finance Management Act.

 

 

(3) The Minister must table a revised fiscal framework with the national adjustments budget if the adjustments budget effects changes to the fiscal framework.

 

(4) The Minister must table a Division of Revenue Amendment Bill with the revised fiscal framework if the adjustments budget effects changes to the Division of Revenue Act for the relevant year.

 

(5) If the Minister has tabled a revised fiscal framework, the revised framework must be referred to a joint sitting of the committees on finance for consideration.

 

(6) If the Minister tables a Division of Revenue Amendment Bill, the Bill must be referred to the committee on appropriations of the national Assembly after the adoption of the revised fiscal framework by Parliament.

 

(6A) After the National Assembly passed the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill, the Bill must be referred to the National Council of Provinces and referred to the committee on appropriations of the National Council of Provinces.

 

(7) The committees on finance must with 15 days after the tabling of the national adjustments budget or as soon as reasonably possible thereafter submit a report on the revised fiscal framework to the respective Houses, which report may be consolidated with the report referred to in section 6(5).

 

(8) The report may propose amendments to the revised fiscal framework.

 

(9) If the report proposes amendments to the revised fiscal framework the Minister must be given at least two days to respond to the report and proposed amendments prior to the submission of the respective reports to the Houses.

 

(10) The report of the committees must include the comments from the Minister.

 

(11) [Section 12(11) deleted by section 11 of Notice No. 17, GG 42170, dated 17 January 2019]

 

(12) The report of the committee of appropriations on the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill may propose amendments to the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill.

 

(13) If the report proposes amendments to the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill, the Minister must be given at least four days to respond to the proposed amendments prior to the submission of the report to the respective Houses.

 

(14) A report of the committees on appropriations must include the comments of the Minister.

 

(15) The Adjustment Appropriation Bill must be referred to the committee on appropriations of the National Assembly only after the revised fiscal framework is passed by Parliament.

 

(15A) After the National Assembly passed the Adjustment Appropriation Bill, the Bill must be referred to the National Council of Provinces and referred to the committee on appropriations of the National Council of Provinces.

 

(15B) The committee on appropriations may only report on the Adjustments Appropriation Bill after Parliament has passed the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill.

 

(16) The standing rules must provide for—
(a) the committee on appropriations to report comments on and amendments to the Adjustments Appropriation Bill;
(b) other committees to consult with the committee on appropriations on amendments to transfer payments, recurrent and capital expenditure of a vote or a main division within a vote, taking into consideration the reports referred to in section 5(2) or any other report adopted by the House;
(c) the committee on appropriations to mediate between committees proposing conflicting amendments to the Adjustment Appropriation Bill; and
(d) the committee on appropriations to recommend to the House that proposed amendments by other committees are rejected where those amendments are inconsistent with the fiscal framework, the adopted Division of Revenue Bill or not motivated adequately in terms of this section.

 

(17) The Minister must be given at least four days to respond to any proposed amendments to the Adjustment Appropriation Bill by the committee on appropriations.

 

(18) The report of the committees on appropriations must—
(a) comply with section 10(10); and
(b) include comments of the Minister to any proposed amendments.

 

(19) The committee on appropriations must report to the relevant House within 30 days after the tabling of the national adjustments budget or as soon as reasonably possible thereafter.

 

[Section 12 substituted by section 11 of Notice No. 17, GG 42170, dated 17 January 2019]