Harmful Business Practices Amendment Act 23 of 1999

The Harmful Business Practices Amendment Act 23 of 1999 intends:

• to amend the Harmful Business Practices Act, 1988 [repealed in March 2011], so as :
  • to harmonise  the Act with provincial legislation;
  • to amend and insert certain  definitions;
  • to reconstitute and rename the Business Practices Committee;  
  • to provide for an executive committee;
  • to authorise an investigating  officer to enter any premises with a search warrant;
  • to provide for appeals  against decisions of competent authorities in the provinces;
  • to phase out  the existing special courts and to replace them with a permanent special  court;
  • to provide for the staying of civil proceedings;
  • to extend the  application of the Act throughout the Republic; and
• to provide for matters  connected therewith.  

Commencement

14 May 1999