Legislation 45% open
South Africa
South Africa is ranked #34 for this dataset
South Africa's Index ranking for legislation is down from #25 in 2013
What data is expected?
This data category requires all national laws and statutes available to be available online, although it is not a requirement that information on legislative behaviour e.g. voting records is available.
What data is available
- Does the data exist? Yes
- Is data in digital form? Yes
- Publicly available? Yes
- Is the data available for free? Yes
- Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
- Is the data machine readable? No (PDF)
- Available in bulk? No
- Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
- Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes
Details
Several emerging private and not-for-profit aggregators of legislation data emerging. Data generally made available in HTML and PDF formats. See http://www.acts.co.za/index.html, http://www.lawsofsouthafrica.up.ac.za/, http://www.saflii.org/za/legis/num_act/
Contributors
Reviewers
- Mor Rubinstein
Submitters
- Francois van Schalkwyk
- Gabriella Razzano