The general public can keep updated on latest data in the weekly Government Gazettes, via a new web portal, http://www.sagazettes.co.za, which is offered as a service from SABINET Online (Pty) Ltd.
Visitors to the site will be able to find the latest in legislation-related news, the upcoming programme of parliament, and summaries of the most important and recent bills, regulations, acts and notices.
At the same time, SABINET Online has launched a new, Web interface to its highly popular online database, SA Gazettes. SA Gazettes contains the full text of the Government and Provincial Gazettes, Parliamentary Bills and the Index to the Government Gazette.
The new interface will gradually completely replace the original MagNet interface which Pierre Malan, SABINET Online's director: business development, describes as comparatively complex to use, requiring the use of keywords and training for maximum productive use.
"The new-look SA Gazettes is without doubt the best collation of searchable gazette data on the Internet," says Malan. "The web-based search engine has created a point and click environment in which users will have no difficulty in finding the information they seek."
The highly intuitive environment enables searches to be conducted across any or all of the Gazette categories - by gazette number, notice number, regulation number, notice type, categories, act number, and/or year of act, notice title, or even originator/department.
With a yearly subscription allowing unlimited access, anyone can now access this fully comprehensive database, which holds information on every Government Gazette published since 1993. SA Gazettes also contains a compilation of all the Indexes pertaining to the past week's Government gazettes.
The site has been developed in close consultation with about 30 of SABINET Online's major corporate users and the response to its launch on 15 June, according to Malan, has been enthusiastic.
Adding value to SA Gazettes, SABINET Online is offering a customised, alert service, whereby clients can be proactively alerted as to new developments on specific subjects. "For example, if a client needs regular updates on, say, fishing quotas but does not have the time to keep updated himself, we will provide that information to him for a nominal fee," he says.
Similarly, if a specific Act that appears on the new weekly index has not yet been scanned into the system, a client can request a copy of the act by fax, email or document delivery.
For more information visit http://www.sagazettes.co.za
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