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Merchant Shipping Bill 2020: a work in progress
The draft Merchant Shipping Bill was published in 2021 for comment and was designed to replace the 1951 Act which has grown into a very cumbersome piece of legislation as technology and shipping have developed. The Department of Transport is in the process of considering comments and input received and other submissions made during the course of the year. The Bill will then be scrutinised by state law advisers before being submitted to cabinet for approval and, ultimately promulgated by parliament as the new Merchant Shipping Act.
The Bill does require updates to 60 odd sets of regulations and requires new regulations dealing with South Africa’s recent accession to the Nairobi Wreck Removal Convention and various green legislation relating to the reduction of sulphur and other harmful emissions. Despite the pandemic, the director of the Department of Transport’s legislative programme, Mr Dumisani Ntuli, is confident that the draft
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