Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act, 2003 (Act No. 53 of 2003)

Sector Codes

Legal Sector Code, 2024

Notice No. 5221 of 2024
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Notice No. 5221

20 September 2024

GG 51271

 

Department of Trade, Industry and Competition

 

Codes of Good Practice on Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment

 

I, Mr Mpho Parks Tau, Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, by virtue of the powers vested in me in terms of section 9(1) of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act, 2003 (Act No. 53 of 2003) as amended by Act No.46 of 2013 ("the Act"), hereby publish the Legal Sector Code and determine that these Codes will come into effect on the date of this publication.

 

Purpose

The purpose of the Legal Sector code is:

1.to provide a policy framework for the meaningful sustainable transformation and growth of the legal sector in the Republic of South Africa;
2.to provide a legislative framework for the transformation and restructuring of the legal profession that embraces the values underpinning the Constitution and ensures that the rule of law is upheld;
3.to broaden access to justice by putting in place measures that provide equal opportunities for all aspirant legal practitioners to have a legal profession that broadly reflects the demographics of the Republic; and
4.to facilitate the realisation of a transformed and restructured legal profession.

 

 

Mr Mpho Parks Tau, MP

Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition

Date: 11/09/2024