This data category requires all national laws and statutes available to be available online, although it is not a requirement that information on legislative behaviour e.g. voting records is available. To satisfy this category, the following minimum criteria must be met:

• Content of the law / status
• If applicable, all relevant amendments to the law
• Date of last amendments
• Data should be updated at least on quarterly

Data Location

https://www.gov.za/documents/acts

Comments

Several emerging private and not-for-profit aggregators of legislation data emerging. Data generally made available in HTML and PDF formats. See https://www.acts.co.za/index.html, https://www.lawsofsouthafrica.up.ac.za/, https://www.saflii.org/za/legis/num_act/

Reviewer comments

Notice that the data is from 1998 onwards.

Data Availability

• N Openly licensed
• Y Is the data available for free
• N Is the data machine readable
• N Available in bulk
• Y Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis
• Y Is data in digital form
• Y Publicly available
• Y Does the data exist
• Y Is the data available online

Details

Date the data became available	Unknown
Format of data	PDF
Reviewer	Mor Rubinstein
Submitters	anonymous
Last modified	Mon Nov 10 2014 19:39:10 GMT+0000 (UTC)