Health Legislation

This Decree sets the operation modalities for some health competencies transferred by the State to the regions.

This document provides the list of essential medicines.

The Act provides for the collection, processing, disclosure, and protection of personal data.

This document provides highlights of the national budget for health for the years 2023-2025.

This Order provides for the creation of the Centre de Coordination des Opérations d'Urgences de Santé abbreviated to ‘CCOUSP’ (coordination center for health emergency operations).

These Regulations regulate the surveillance and the control of notifiable medical conditions in South Africa.

This Act provides for the establishment of a Medicines Regulatory Authority; for the registration of medicines and medical devices; for the control of medicines and scheduled substances, and for incidental matters.

This decision by the minister of public health provides for pricing scheme for the treatment of severe malaria.

This decree governs the organisation of the Ministry of Public Health and addresses among other things, the missions of the ministry (art. 1) and its structure (general structure is fleshed out under article 2).

The Act gives effect to the World Health Organization 's framework Convention on tobacco control.

The Act promotes the protection of personal information processed by public and private bodies; introduces certain conditions so as to establish minimum requirements for the processing of personal information; provides for the establishment of an Information Regulator to exercise certain powers and to perform certain duties and functions in terms of this Act and the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000; provides for the issuing of codes of conduct; provides for the rights of persons regarding unsolicited electronic communications and automated decision making; etc.

This decision by the minister of public health provides the prices and conditions of availability of rapid malaria diagnosis kits.

This document provides for standard treatment guidelines and the essential medicines list.

The Act provides for the regulation and control of practices in respect of public procurement.

The Constitution includes 279 articles addressing a wide array of issues including the Kingdom and its constitution, the protection and promotion of fundamental rights and freedoms, the acquisition and loss of citizenship, the directive principles of state policy, as well as institutional arrangements (the executive, the legislature, the judicature, local governments, and traditional institutions). The Constitution also addresses public services, public finance, and international relations. (non-exhaustive list).

The Act establishes the Swaziland Standards Authority and provides for matters connected thereto.

This Act provides a framework for a structured uniform health system within the Republic, taking into account the obligations imposed by the Constitution and other laws on the national, provincial and local governments with regard to health services; and provides for matters connected therewith.

This Act provides for an integrated and co-ordinated disaster management policy that focuses on preventing or reducing the risk of disasters, mitigating the severity of disasters, emergency preparedness, rapid and effective response to disasters and post-disaster recovery and rehabilitation; regulates the establishment and functioning of national, provincial and municipal disaster management centres; regulates disaster management volunteers and matters incidental thereto.

This law provides the rules to govern the profession of opticians.

This Act gives effect within the Republic of South Africa to the relevant international legal instruments, principles and standards relating to refugees; provides for the reception into South Africa of asylum seekers; regulates applications for and recognition of refugee status; provides for the rights and obligations flowing from such status; and provides for matters connected therewith.