National Small Business Act, 1996 (Act No. 102 of 1996)

To provide for the establishment of the Advisory Body and the Small Enterprise Development Finance Agency; to provide for the functioning of the Small Enterprise Development Finance Agency; to ensure the provision of financial and non-financial support services to small enterprises; to promote the development of sustainable and responsible co-operative banking; to provide for the establishment of the Office of the Small Enterprise Ombud Service; to enable an equitable trading environment for small enterprises through the provision of affordable and effective access to justice; to empower the Minister to declare certain practices in relation to small enterprises to be prohibited as unfair trading practices; to provide guidelines for organs of state in order to promote small enterprise in the Republic; and to provide for matters incidental thereto.

[Long title substituted by section 11 of the National Small Enterprise Amendment Act, 2024 (Act No. 21 of 2024), GG50965, Notice No. 5049, dated 23 July 2024 - effective 1 October 2024 per Commencement Notice 190 of 2024]