Promotion of Access to Information Amendment Act, 2019

The Promotion of Access to Information Amendment Act 31 of 2019 is an Act of the Parliament of South Africa.

Background

The Public Funding of Represented Political Parties Act 103 of 1997 provided for public funding of political parties in amounts relative to their size in Parliament. The Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 (PAIA) provided for access to information from a variety of governmental and non-governmental bodies. However, PAIA did not cover political parties.

In My Vote Counts v Speaker of the National Assembly the South African Constitutional Court ruled that the PAIA was constitutionally invalid to the extent that it failed to provide for the "recordal, preservation and reasonable disclosure" of information on the private funding of political parties and independent candidates and mandated Parliament to amend the law within 18 months.

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