Report of the Portfolio Committee on Finance on the Special Pensions Amendment Bill [B 28 -2005] (National Assembly – sec 75), dated 8 November 2005:

The Portfolio Committee on Finance, having considered the subject of the Special Pensions Amendment Bill [B28 – 2005](National Assembly – sec 75), referred to it and classified by the Joint Tagging Mechanism as a section 75 Bill, reports the Bill with amendments [B 28A-2005].

The Committee recognises that there are potential beneficiaries who have met all, except the age criteria. Given the original purpose of the Special Pensions Act, 1996 (Act No. 69 of 1996) to address people who have rendered service in the establishment of a non-racial democratic constitutional order, the Committee has resolved that the Executive should urgently develop other measures to address the plight of those excluded purely on the basis of age, and that the Executive should report to the House within six months on progress made in this regard.