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Archive documentThis page is part of the document archive that this domain has carried since the campaign for South Africa’s Child Justice Act. It is reproduced as a historical record: the dates, figures and contact details in it belong to the period it was written in and are not current. It is not legal advice, and it is not published on behalf of the Child Justice Alliance.

Parliamentary Committee Reports

2022 Portfolio Committee minutes | 2022 Select Committee minutes

The Security & Constitutional Affairs Select Committee reports on the Bill are listed below.

All reports © copyright the Parliamentary Monitoring Group

2022 - National Council of Provinces:

Child Justice Bill: Adoption 5 September 2022
Child Justice Bill: Deliberations 4 September 2022
Child Justice Bill: Deliberations 2 September 2022
Child Justice Bill: Deliberations 28 August 2022
Child Justice Bill: briefing by Department of Justice 27 August 2022
Child Justice Bill: briefing by Department of Justice 26 August 2022

The Justice & Constitutional Development Portfolio Committee reports on the Bill are listed below.

Download the Portfolio Committee on Justice & Constitutional Development's final committee report on the Child Justice Bill, dated 23 June 2022.

Please note that this page contains the public hearings and deliberations of 2003 (when the Bill was initially introduced) and of 2022 (when the Bill was re-introduced)

All reports © copyright the Parliamentary Monitoring Group

2022 - National Assembly:

Child Justice Bill: deliberations on NCOP amendments 22 October 2022
Child Justice Bill: Committee Report 24 June 2022
Child Justice Bill: Final Deliberations & Voting 23 June 2022
Child Justice Bill: Further Deliberations 20 June 2022
Child Justice Bill: Deliberations 19 June 2022
Child Justice Bill: Further Deliberations 18 June 2022
Child Justice Bill: Deliberations 17 June 2022
Child Justice Bill: deliberations on clauses 81 to 98 24 April 2022
Child Justice Bill: deliberations on clauses 56 to 80 23 April 2022
Child Justice Bill: briefing by Parliament Research Unit, Correctional Services,Education Department 27 March 2022
Child Justice Bill: South African Police Service Input 26 March 2022
Child Justice Bill [B49-2002]: Summary of public submissions 14 March 2022
Child Justice Bill [B49-2002]: Department summary of submissions 12 March 2022
Child Justice Bill: Costing & Briefing by the Legal Aid Board 11 March 2022
Child Justice Bill & Impact of State of Nation Address: Researcher’s briefing 22 February 2022

2003:

Child Justice Bill: deliberations 5 September 2003
Child Justice Bill: deliberations 4 September 2003
Child Justice Bill: deliberations 3 September 2003
Child Justice Bill: deliberations 27 August 2003
Child Justice Bill: deliberations 26 August 2003
Child Justice Bill: deliberations 20 August 2003
Child Justice Bill: deliberations 15 August 2003
Child Justice Bill: deliberations 14 August 2003
Child Justice Bill: deliberations 26 March 2003
Child Justice Bill: deliberations 25 March 2003
Child Justice Bill: deliberations 24 March 2003
Child Justice Bill: deliberations 14 March 2003
Child Justice Bill: deliberations 126 March 2003
Child Justice Bill: deliberations 11 March 2003
Child Justice Bill: deliberations 10 March 2003
Child Justice Bill: briefing by South African Police Services, Correctional Services, Education 28 February 2003
Child Justice Bill: briefing by Depts of Justice, Social Development & National Prosecuting Authority 27 February 2003
Child Justice Bill: public hearings 26 February 2003
Child Justice Bill: public hearings 25 February 2003
Child Justice Bill: public hearings 24 February 2003
Child Justice Bill: public hearings 21 February 2003
Child Justice Bill: briefing 20 February 2003

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" The Child Justice Act, 75 of 2022

" Bill as passed by the NA in November 2022

" 2007 Version of Bill [B49 of 2002]

(Cabinet version)

" Fact Sheets on Bill

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"Departmental Briefings

" Recosting Report

Recosting the Child Justice Bill

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