Contents: Obligations of Parliament and its separate bodies

Air Traffic and Navigation Services Company Act 45 of 1993

2 Establishment of public company

(1) On a date to be fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette there shall be established a public company to be known as the Air Traffic and Navigation Services Company Limited.
3 Share capital of company
(1) The State shall be the holder of the shares in the company.
(2) The said shares shall only be sold or otherwise disposed of with the approval, by resolution, of Parliament.
8 Annual report
(1) The company shall submit to the Shareholding Minister an annual report, including its audited and approved financial statements, within three months of the end of each financial year.
(2) The Shareholding Minister shall lay the said report upon the Table in Parliament within 30 days after the receipt thereof, if Parliament is in session, or, if Parliament is not then in session, within 30 days after the commencement of its next ensuing session.
10 Minister may issue orders
(1) The Minister may by order require the company to do or not to do what is mentioned in the order, if the Minister considers it necessary or expedient so to order-
(7) The Minister shall lay a copy of every order under subsection (1) of this section, except an order contemplated in subsection (6) of this section, upon the Table in Parliament in the manner contemplated in section 8 (2).

Airports Company Act 44 of 1993

2 Establishment of public company

(1)  On a date to be fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette there shall be established a public company to be known as the Airports Company Limited.
8 Annual report
(1) As long as the State holds any shares in the company, the company shall submit to the Shareholding Minister an annual report, including its audited and approved financial statements in respect of all its business and in respect of each company airport separately, within three months of the end of each financial year.
(2) The Shareholding Minister shall lay the said report upon the Table in Parliament within 30 days after the receipt thereof, if Parliament is in session, or, if Parliament is not then in session, within 30 days after the commencement of its next ensuing session.
10 Minister may issue orders
(1) The Minister may by order require the company to do or not to do what is mentioned in the order, if it is reasonably necessary so to order-
(a) in the interest of national security; or
(b) to discharge or facilitate the discharge of an international obligation of the State.
(7) The Minister shall lay a copy of every order under subsection (1) of this section upon the Table in Parliament in the manner contemplated in section 8 (2) within 30 days after it was issued.
11 Regulating Committee
(1) There is hereby established a committee to be known as the Regulating Committee.
(7) The Committee shall as soon as practicable after 31 March of each year but not later than 30 June of that year submit to the Minister a report giving particulars regarding the activities of the Committee during the year which ended on the first-mentioned date.
(8) The Minister shall lay a copy of the report mentioned in subsection (7) of this section upon the Table in Parliament in the manner contemplated in section 8(2) within 30 days after it was submitted to him.

Anti-Personnel Mines Prohibition Act 36 of 2003

1 Definitions
'Convention' means the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, of 18 September 1997, which is set out in the Schedule and was signed by the Republic on 3 December 1997 and ratified by the Republic on 26 June 1998;
27 Reporting
(1) The Minister must-
(a) gather, record and disseminate information in compliance with the Convention and must report on the Republic's compliance with the Convention-
(i) through the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the Secretary-General of the United Nations; and
(ii) to Parliament within two weeks after the Minister has made the report contemplated in subparagraph (i);
(b) monitor the Republic's compliance with the Convention; and
(c) keep a record of all exemptions granted in terms of section 7 and a record of all anti-personnel mines destroyed in terms of this Act.
32 Regulations
(1) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, make regulations regarding-
(a) anything that may or must be prescribed in terms of this Act; and
(b) any administrative or procedural matter which it is necessary to prescribe in order to give effect to the provisions of this Act.
(2) The Minister must cause a copy of regulations made under this section to be tabled in Parliament as soon as possible after publication thereof.

Application of Resolutions of the Security Council of the United Nations Act 172 of 1993

1 Application of resolutions of Security Council of United Nations

(1) The State President may by proclamation in the Gazette declare that any resolution taken by the Security Council of the United Nations under the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations shall apply in the Republic to the extent specified in the proclamation, as from a date so specified, and such resolution shall be implemented in the Republic in such manner as the State President may so determine.
2 Tabling of proclamations
A proclamation issued by the State President under section 1 shall be laid upon the Table in Parliament in the same manner as the list referred to in section 17 of the Interpretation Act, 1957 (Act 33 of 1957), and if Parliament by resolution disapproves any such proclamation or any provision thereof, such proclamation or provision shall cease to be of force and effect, but without prejudice to the validity of anything done in terms of such proclamation or such provision before it so ceased to be of force and effect, or to any right or liability acquired or incurred in terms of such proclamation or such provision before it so ceased to be of force and effect.

Appropriation Act 9 of 2008
3. Appropriation listed as specifically and exclusively
(1) The Minister may—

(a) impose a condition in respect of an appropriation listed as specifically and exclusively in the Schedule in order to promote and enforce transparency and effective management in respect of revenue, expenditure, assets and liabilities of departments, public entities and constitutional institutions contemplated in section 6(1)(g) of the Public Finance Management Act; and
(b) stop any allocation in terms of such appropriation until the condition imposed by the Minister is met.
(2) An amount stopped in terms of subsection (1)(b) must be reported to Parliament and the Auditor-General at the tabling of the next appropriation legislation in Parliament after the commencement of this Act.