Special Appropriation Act, 2026

The text provided is not a court judgment but a Government Gazette publishing national legislation. 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 stated purpose is to address a shortfall caused by the withdrawal of international donor funding to the health sector. The Schedule allocates the amount across health 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 rather than a court judgment.
• The enactment authorises an additional appropriation from the National Revenue Fund for expenditure authorised under section 16(1) of the Public Finance Management Act 1 of 1999.
• The Act incorporates the application of the Appropriation Act, 2025, with necessary changes, to the additional appropriation.

Parliament enacted, and the President assented to, the Special Appropriation Act, 2026. The Act appropriates R754.527 million from the National Revenue Fund to the vote of Health for the 2025/26 financial year, and provides that the Appropriation Act, 2025 applies to that appropriation with necessary changes.

Not available. There is no ratio decidendi because the text is not a court judgment and establishes no binding judicial principle.

Not available. There are no obiter dicta because the text is legislation, not judicial reasons.

Although not a judicial precedent, the instrument is significant in South African public finance and health governance because it demonstrates the use of a special appropriation to respond to an urgent funding gap in the health sector following the withdrawal of international donor funding. It reflects Parliament's constitutional and statutory control over public expenditure and the role of appropriation legislation in maintaining continuity of essential health programmes.