Policies / Policies from 2020

Policies from 2020

Policies with publication year 2020.

COVID-19 Block Exemption for the Retail Property Sector 2020

Ministry of Health

South Africa2020HealthPolicy

The purpose of these Regulations is to exempt a category of agreements or practices between designated retail tenants and the retail property landlords from the application of sections 4 and 5 of the Act in response to the declaration of COVID-19 pandemic as a national disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act, solely for the purpose of enabling the retail property sector to minimize the negative impact on the ability of designated retail tenants, including small independent retailers, to manage their finances during the national disaster and be in a position to continue normal operations beyond the national disaster.

COVID-19 Block Exemption for the Banking Sector 2020

Ministry of Health

South Africa2020HealthPolicy

The purpose of these Regulations is to exempt a category of agreements or practices between Banks, Banking Association of South Africa and/or Payments Association of South Africa from the application of sections 4 and 5 of the Act in response to the declaration of COVID-19 pandemic as a national disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act, solely for the purpose of enabling the banking sector to minimise the negative impact on the ability of customers, including both business and private individuals, to manage their finances during the national disaster, and be in a position to continue normal operations beyond the national disaster.

COVID-19 Block Exemption for the HealthCare Sector 2020

Ministry of Health

South Africa2020HealthPolicy

The purpose of these Regulations is to exempt a category of agreements or practices in the healthcare sector from the application of sections 4 and 5 of the Act in response to the declaration of COVID-19 pandemic as a national disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act, solely with the purpose of promoting access to healthcare, preventing exploitation of patients, enabling the sharing of healthcare facilities, management of capacity and reduction of prices.

COVID-19 Block Exemption for the Hotel Industry 2020

Ministry of Health

South Africa2020HealthPolicy

The purpose of these Regulations is to exempt a category of agreements or practices in the hotel industry from the application of sections 4 and 5 of the Act in response to the declaration of COVID -19 pandemic as a national disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act, solely with the purpose of promoting concerted conduct to prevent an escalation of the national disaster and to alleviate, contain and minimise the effects of the national disaster.

Consumer and Customer Protection and National Disaster Management Regulations and Directions

Ministry of Trade, Industry and Competition

South Africa2020Trade, Industry And InvestmentRegulation

The purpose of these regulations is to promote concerted conduct to prevent an escalation of the national disaster and to alleviate, contain and minimize the effects of the national disaster and protect consumers and customers from unconscionable, unfair, unreasonable commercial practices during the national disaster.

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