Special Appropriation Act, 2026

The text provided is not a court judgment but a published Act of Parliament in the Government Gazette. It records that the President assented on 6 February 2026 to the Special Appropriation Act, 2026, which was published on 11 February 2026. The Act appropriates an additional R754.527 million from the National Revenue Fund for the 2025/26 financial year to the national vote of Health. The purpose stated is to address a shortfall caused by the withdrawal of international donor funding to the health sector. The appropriation is authorised in terms of section 16(1) of the Public Finance Management Act 1 of 1999 and is allocated across specified programmes, including National Health Insurance, Communicable and Non-communicable Diseases, and Health System Governance and Human Resources.

• No judicial legal issues can be identified because the text is legislation, not a court judgment.
• The legislative measure appropriates additional funds to Health and incorporates the application of the Appropriation Act, 2025 with necessary changes.

Parliament enacted the Special Appropriation Act, 2026, appropriating R754.527 million from the National Revenue Fund to the vote of Health for the 2025/26 financial year. The Act is named the Special Appropriation Act, 2026.

Not available because there is no court decision and therefore no binding judicial ratio decidendi. The text establishes a legislative appropriation, not a legal principle decided by a court.

Not available because the document is not a judgment and contains no judicial observations beyond the operative legislative provisions.

Although not a judicial precedent, the Act is significant in South African public finance law because it demonstrates the use of a special appropriation to respond to an urgent funding shortfall in the health sector following the withdrawal of international donor funding. It also illustrates the constitutional and statutory budget process through which Parliament authorises additional expenditure from the National Revenue Fund, linked to section 16(1) of the Public Finance Management Act.