National Laws 60% open

How open is the data?

•  It's available free of charge
•  It's downloadable
•  It's publicly available
•  It's not openly licenced
•  It's up-to-date
•  It's not in an open and machine-readable format
•  It's not digital data
•  It's not print data

All answers

Question	Answer	Comment
Available free of charge	Yes
Downloadable	Yes	PDF downloads
Publicly available	Yes
Openly licenced	No	No explicit license cited - however this disclaimer is mentioned: "Users may view, copy, download to a local drive, print and distribute the content of this website, or any part thereof for informational or reference purposes only and for non-commercial purposes. All moral rights and any other rights of the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa or other legal entity in respect of which content is contained on this site not expressly granted are reserved."
Up-to-date	Yes	Amendments are published, but legislation is not consolidated
In an open and machine-readable format		PDF
location	https://www.parliament.gov.za/legislation?sorts[date]=- - Parliament's listing of legislation
Collected by government	Yes
findable_steps	Google search lead me to parliament where I further refined my searches
characteristics	Content of the law, Status, Date of last amendment, Amendments to the law (if applicable)	While the Acts and Bills are available and published, legislation is not consolidated - often making it difficult to follow amendments. Government does not publish in a machine readable format (all PDF files) but there are other agencies (civil society) working to make this accessible
Controlled access	Yes
Collector name	Parliament of South Africa