Parliament, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 – The Portfolio Committee on Monitoring, Planning and Evaluation has today unanimously adopted the motion of desirability on the Statistics Amendment Bill after it met with Statistics South Africa (StatsSA), the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and the Information Regulator South Africa for engagements on the Bill.
After a briefing from the Parliamentary Constitutional and Legal Services on the constitutionality of the Bill, the committee went through the Bill clause by clause until all committee members’ questions and areas requiring clarity had been addressed satisfactorily.
The committee agreed with most of the Bill’s provisions, including that a census be conducted every 10 years. However, the committee also emphasised the importance of conducting other surveys intermittently to inform planning. Parliament’s Constitutional and Legal Services in collaboration with StatsSA were tasked to reconsider objections to Clause 9, which deals with the deletion of the phrase “other than a private dwelling”.
The Statistics Amendment Bill seeks to, among other things, amend the Statistics Act, 1999, so as to substitute certain definitions and insert new definitions; to amend the provisions dealing with the powers and duties of the Statistician-General; and to make provision for the development and implementation of the National Statistics System and National Strategy for the Development of Statistics by the Statistician-General.
The committee could not deal with the B-list of the Bill as it had planned and will finalise the Bill by February next year. The Chairperson of the committee, Mr Qubudile Dyantyi thanked StatsSA, SARB, Information Regulator South Africa and Parliament’s Constitutional and Legal Services for their contributions to the Bill.
ISSUED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMUNICATION SERVICES ON BEHALF OF THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON MONITORING, PLANNING AND EVALUATION, MR QUBUDILE DYANTYI.
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Name: Mr Mava Lukani
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