The Finance Portfolio Committee of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature invites all relevant stakeholders and other interested groups to attend public hearings on the KwaZulu-Natal Gaming and Betting Tax Amendment Bill, 2021.

The purpose of the public hearings is to provide all relevant stakeholders and other interested persons an opportunity to make verbal as well as written representations on the Bill to the Finance Portfolio Committee.

The Bill seeks to amend the KwaZulu-Natal Gaming and Betting Tax Act, 2010, so as to repeal section 5 of the said Act, to provide for validation of taxes collected or paid in terms of Provincial Notice No. 112 of 5 October 2012, to provide for the substitution of the Schedule to the Act and to provide for matters connected therewith.

The Public Hearing will be held as follows:

• Date: Thursday, 30 June 2022
• Venue: uMkhumbane Community Hall, 60 Bramcote Road, uMkhumbane, Durban, 4138
• Time: 9am

Dates, venues and starting times for subsequent public hearings will be published in due course.

All written submissions must be addressed to:

• Mr Siphamandla Chili
• Private Bag X 9112
• Pietermaritzburg
• 3200

or hand delivered to:

• Albertina Sisulu Administration Building
• KwaZulu-Natal Legislature
• 244 Langalibalele Street
• Pietermaritzburg
• 3200 

to reach him no later than 1 August 2022. 

Kindly take notice further that the Standing Rules of the KZN Legislature have been amended with effect from the 26^th November 2021. Any stakeholder wishing to revise any previous written representations made on the Bill, may do so no later than the closing date for public comments indicated in this notice.

Copies of the Bill and the amended Standing Rules are available on the KZN Legislature’s website: www.kznlegislature.gov.za. For further details, please contact Siphamandla Chili on Tel: 033 355 7600 or Email: chili@kznleg.gov.za