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The Land Control Bill, 2022

The Land Control Bill, 2022 (the Bill) proposes to regulate various land transactions in relation to agricultural land. The Bill intends to repeal and replace the Land Control Act (Chapter 302) and seeks to..

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Templars

Stress-Testing the Legal Regime for Single-Member Private Companies

The legal framework for single member private companies was one of the major reforms introduced by the Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 (CAMA). In principle, this corporate structure allows for the formation, management, and operation of a private company, by a singl..

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Dentons Hamilton Harrison & Mathews

Amendments to the Local Content Regulations

The Minister responsible for Minerals in Tanzania recently published Government Notice No. 749 of 2022 introducing various amendments to the Local Content Regulations of 2018. Below, we summarise some of the significant changes to the law.

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Webber Wentzel

Update: Cabinet approves the General Laws (Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorism Financing) Amendment Bill Tabled before Parliament

The General Laws (Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorism Financing) Amendment Bill, 2022, which will make the necessary changes to avoid South Africa being “greylisted”, has been tabled.

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KN Law

Changes To Capital Market Regulations

The Cabinet Secretary Finance recently gazetted the Capital Markets (Whistleblower Regulations) 2022 to give effect to the amendments to the Capital Markets Act (the Act) in 2018 by setting up a framework for the payment of rewards to whistleblowers. The  amendmen..
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Bowmans

Tanzania: Income tax and value-added tax on electronic services – Regulations

In July 2022, the Minister of Finance and Planning (Minister) published the Income Tax (Registration of Non-Resident Electronic Service Providers) Regulations 2022 (Income Tax Regulations) and the Value Added Tax (Registration of Non-Resident ..

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MDR Advogados

Legal alert: Approval of the new Electricity Law

It was recently published Law no. 12/2022, of 11 July, which approves the Electricity Law (New
Electricity Law) and revokes Law no. 21/97, of 1 October (Electricity Law).

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Olaniwun Ajayi

NNPC Limited: Understanding the Hybrid Identity of Nigeria’s National Oil Company

With the historic passage of the Petroleum Industry Act, 2021 (the PIA) there has been an overhaul of the legal and regulatory landscape of the Nigerian oil and gas industry, extending to the establishment of key institutions as regulators of technical and commercial acti..

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Orison Legal

Finance Bill 2022 – An overview for businesses

On 22 July 2022, the Cabinet approved the introduction of the Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 into the National Assembly. The object of the Bill is to provide for the implementation of the measures announced in the Minister of Finance's Budget Speech 2022-202..

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