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Three bounded qualification and traceability repairs to reviewed P08

Scope: This is a narrow patch to identified P08 cells. It does not rerun P08, reconsider the eight workflows generally, or adopt P10’s unreviewed complaint/enforcement conclusions.

Fresh P11 access: 26 October 2026 PDT / 27 October 2026 UTC. Exact source-specific clock times were not logged and are unknown.

Model/provenance: Regular Chat with primary-source browsing. No Pro, quota, reset, measured-ranking or independent-review claim is made. P08 retains its saved provenance and review limits.

Focused disposition

CPA §14(1) excludes only transactions between juristic persons. A juristic customer alone does not establish the exclusion unless the supplier is also a juristic person. If either party is a natural person, §14(1) does not itself exclude the fixed-term agreement, although every other CPA-coverage and §14 predicate still must be satisfied. South African Government
CPA §14(3)(b)(ii) requires a supplier to credit any amount that remains the consumer’s property at cancellation. That obligation sits alongside the consumer’s liability for amounts owed through cancellation and the supplier’s right to impose a reasonable cancellation penalty. It is not a universal full cash refund or a statutory formula for deciding what portion of every advance remains consumer property. South African Government+1
Four traceability repairs are required: remove P08 C048 from the §54 service-refund discussion; remove P08 C047 from fee-form and contingent-fee support; correct CPA §2(6) to zero-based PDF P15/printed page 30; and state ECTA §46(1)’s 30-day default period as running after the day the supplier received the order, unless otherwise agreed. South African Government+2

No fee, refund, award, actual cancellation date, provider permission or consumer entitlement is newly determined.

Exact old-to-new affected-cell crosswalk

R1 — CPA §14(1): both parties must be juristic persons

No.	P08 location	Prior problem	P11 replacement/disposition
1	C_ZA-P08-C011	“CPA §14 excludes juristic-person transactions” could be read as exclusion whenever the customer alone is juristic.	Replace with the full claim cell below: §14(1) excludes a transaction between juristic persons, meaning both contracting parties must be juristic for that exclusion. South African Government
2	C_ZA-P08-C054	Said a below-threshold juristic person receives general CPA protection “but not §14,” without preserving the supplier-status predicate.	Replace with the full claim cell below: a below-threshold juristic consumer is excluded from §14 only when the supplier is also juristic; ECTA Chapter VII remains separately unavailable because its consumer is a natural person.
3	Authority/route comparison — fixed term	“Applicable natural-person fixed-term consumer agreement” was narrower than the text.	Replace the trigger with: “A covered fixed-term consumer agreement not excluded by §14(1)’s both-party-juristic rule.”
4	Workflow 8	Treated the small-company customer as sufficient to exclude §14 even though supplier status was unspecified.	Replace with the conditional supplier-status fork in the workflow table below.
5	Coverage G1-10	“Juristic person and CPA §14 — §14 excluded regardless threshold.”	Replace with: “§14 excluded regardless threshold only where the transaction is between juristic persons.”
6	Coverage G3-01	“CPA §14 actor scope — excludes juristic-person transactions.”	Replace with: “Excludes transactions where both supplier and consumer are juristic persons.”
7	Coverage G4-08	Mixed legal/funds workflow said §14 was unavailable because the customer was juristic.	Replace with a two-branch classification dependent on supplier status.

The separate CPA §5(2)(b) threshold rule remains a test of the juristic consumer, and the ECTA Chapter VII definition remains limited to a natural-person end user. Neither rule is loosened or merged into §14(1).

R2 — CPA §14(3)(b)(ii): credit of consumer-owned remainder

No.	P08 location	Prior position	P11 replacement/disposition
8	G3.1 fixed-term narrative	Discussed amounts owed through cancellation and a reasonable cancellation penalty but omitted the supplier’s credit duty.	Add the replacement paragraph below expressly covering §14(3)(b)(ii).
9	C_ZA-P08-C030	Covered only the reasonable cancellation charge and no-negation rule.	Replace with the full claim cell below, including accrued liability, reasonable penalty and credit of consumer-owned remainder.
10	Coverage G3-04	“Accrued amounts through cancellation.”	Retain and cross-reference the separate required credit of any amount remaining consumer property.
11	Coverage G3-05	“Reasonable cancellation penalty.”	Retain and add that the penalty operates alongside—not instead of—the §14(3)(b)(ii) credit duty.
12	Workflow 5	Calculated the notice period and discussed the penalty, but not the credit.	Add the bounded qualification in the workflow table below; no amount is calculated.
13	Authority/route comparison — fixed term effect	Listed 20-business-day cancellation and reasonable charge only.	Replace effect with: “20-business-day cancellation; liability through cancellation; reasonable cancellation penalty; and credit of any amount remaining the consumer’s property.”

The credit obligation is not synonymous with an immediate full cash refund. Whether money remains the consumer’s property can depend on §64, §65, the contract, work actually performed, valid charges and other applicable law. South African Government+1

R3 — source, pinpoint and ECTA-trigger repairs

No.	P08 location	Prior problem	P11 replacement/disposition
14	G2.8 — service quality and partial refunds	Cross-referenced P08 C048, which concerns the 2026 opt-out registry and missing amendment body.	Remove C048. Retain C024 and C051, supported by CPA §§41 and 54, especially §54 at zero P53/printed page 106. South African Government
15	Workflow 6 — partial performance/misleading guarantee	Included C048 as refund authority.	Remove C048; retain C023–C024 and C051 as applicable.
16	G2.3 — fee forms	Cross-referenced C047, which concerns ECTA ordinary-day computation.	Remove C047. Retain C015 and C052, together with the disclosed assumed contract, CPA fairness and actual-performance predicates.
17	Workflow 7 — contingent fee/no acceptance	Included C047 as support.	Remove C047; retain C015 and C052.
18	P08 S001 source row	Located §2 with P16–P19/printed 32–38.	Correct only §2: §2, including §2(6), is at zero P15/printed page 30. Keep §§4–6 separately at their previously stated pages and existing read limits. South African Government
19	G3.8 — delayed/unavailable electronic performance	Did not state §46(1)’s exact default-period trigger.	Add: the default 30 days run after the day on which the supplier received the order, unless otherwise agreed. South African Government
20	C_ZA-P08-C043	Referred generally to the delayed/unavailable-performance routes.	Replace with the full claim cell below, including §46(1), (2) and (3).
21	Coverage G3-19	Stated §46 routes but omitted the order-receipt trigger.	Add the exact §46(1) trigger and preserve the agreed-period branch.
22	Authority/route comparison — ECTA delay	Said failure within agreed/default period without defining the default start.	Replace with the complete route row below.
23	C_ZA-P08-C047	Correct substantive claim, but cited in unrelated fee passages.	Retain unchanged. Remove it only from G2.3 and Workflow 7.
24	C_ZA-P08-C048	Correct substantive opt-out/currentness claim, but cited in unrelated §54 passages.	Retain unchanged. Remove it only from G2.8 and Workflow 6.

Replacement P08 passages

Replacement for P08 G3.1 — CPA §14 fixed-term agreements

CPA §14(1) excludes only a transaction between juristic persons, irrespective of their turnover or asset value. A juristic consumer alone does not establish the exclusion unless the supplier is also a juristic person. If either party is a natural person, §14(1) does not by itself exclude the agreement, although the transaction must still be a covered fixed-term consumer agreement and all other CPA predicates remain material. South African Government

Upon an applicable early cancellation, §14(3) provides three related consequences: the consumer remains liable for amounts owed through the cancellation date; the supplier may impose a reasonable cancellation penalty subject to §14 and regulation 5; and the supplier must credit the consumer with any amount that remains the consumer’s property as of cancellation. The statute does not make that credit a universal full cash refund or specify that every advance remains unearned. Whether a particular balance remains consumer property can require separate application of §§64–65, the agreement and evidence of services performed. South African Government+1

Replacement for P08 G2.3 — fee forms

The CPA and ECTA do not establish a universal private debt-negotiation fee percentage or cap. An agreement may propose an advance, staged, periodic or contingent fee, but the actual contract must disclose the service, objective earning trigger, payment timing, termination consequences and any third-party compensation, subject to CPA fairness, disclosure and performance rules. This proposition is supported by C015 and C052; C047 concerns ECTA day computation and is not fee-form authority.

Replacement for P08 G2.8 — service quality and partial refunds

CPA §54 gives a consumer rights to timely and competent service and, where the supplier fails the statutory standard, permits the consumer to require correction or a refund of a reasonable portion of the price having regard to the extent of the failure. This is not an automatic full-refund rule whenever the hoped-for creditor outcome does not occur. The correct supporting claims are C024 and C051; C048 concerns the 2026 opt-out-registry source gap and is not §54 refund authority. South African Government

Replacement for P08 G3.8 — ECTA delayed or unavailable performance

Unless the parties agree otherwise, ECTA §46(1) requires the supplier to execute the order within 30 days after the day on which the supplier received the order. If the supplier fails to execute the order within that default period or the different agreed period, §46(2) permits the consumer to cancel on seven days’ written notice. If the supplier cannot perform because the ordered goods or services are unavailable, §46(3) requires immediate notice and refund of payments within 30 days after that notification. No precise cutoff, receipt rule or live deadline is calculated here. South African Government

Full scoped replacement claim cells

P08 claim	Replacement claim text	Primary pinpoint	Continuing qualification
C_ZA-P08-C011 — replace	CPA §14(1) excludes a fixed-term transaction only where it is between juristic persons, meaning both the consumer and supplier are juristic. If either party is a natural person, §14(1) does not itself establish exclusion. ECTA Chapter VII separately defines its consumer as a natural person, and regulation 44 has its own narrower actor/purpose scope.	CPA §14(1), zero P24/printed p48. South African Government	General CPA application, fixed-term status, threshold and other exclusions remain material.
C_ZA-P08-C030 — replace	Upon an applicable §14 cancellation, the consumer remains liable for amounts owed through cancellation; the supplier may impose a reasonable cancellation penalty under §14(3)(b)(i) and regulation 5; and under §14(3)(b)(ii) the supplier must credit any amount that remains the consumer’s property as of cancellation.	CPA §14(3), zero P25/printed p50. South African Government	No universal penalty percentage, full-refund rule or formula for deciding what remains consumer property. Sections 64–65 and actual performance may be relevant separately.
C_ZA-P08-C043 — replace	Unless otherwise agreed, ECTA §46(1) requires execution within 30 days after the day the supplier received the order. Failure within that or the agreed period permits cancellation on seven days’ written notice under §46(2). Unavailability requires immediate notice and refund within 30 days after notification under §46(3).	ECTA §46(1)–(3), zero P23/printed p46. South African Government	Actual receipt, agreed performance period, notice and availability facts matter; no live deadline calculated.
C_ZA-P08-C054 — replace	A juristic consumer below the applicable §5 threshold may receive general CPA protection. CPA §14 is excluded only if the supplier is also juristic, because §14(1) applies to transactions between juristic persons. ECTA Chapter VII’s cooling-off protections remain separately unavailable to a juristic consumer because that Chapter defines its consumer as a natural-person end user.	CPA §§5,14; §14 at zero P24/printed p48; ECTA consumer definition retained from P08. South African Government	Actual entity status, threshold, service purpose and CPA transaction predicates remain required.
C_ZA-P08-C024 — retain	Consumer has rights to timely, competent service; remedy may be correction or reasonable partial refund based on failure.	CPA §54, zero P53/printed p106. South African Government	Remove C048 as a cross-reference; creditor rejection alone does not prove defective service.
C_ZA-P08-C051 — retain	Partial performance plus misleading guarantee may engage §§41 and 54, but does not dictate automatic full refund.	CPA §§41,54; §54 zero P53/printed p106. South African Government	Actual promise and failure required.
C_ZA-P08-C015 / C052 — retain	No universal private fee percentage exists; a contingent fee depends on the actual contract trigger, subject to fairness and performance rules.	CPA §§48–54 as previously cited in P08.	Remove C047 from the fee-form and Workflow 7 cross-references.
C_ZA-P08-C047 / C048 — retain substantively	C047 remains the ECTA ordinary-days/cutoff hold. C048 remains the 2026 opt-out-registry/mislinked-amendment-body hold.	Original P08 sources.	Neither supports the unrelated fee or §54 refund passages.

Corrected authority/route-comparison rows

Route	Correct trigger	Correct principal effect	Qualification
CPA §14 fixed term	Covered fixed-term consumer agreement not excluded because both parties are juristic persons	20-business-day recorded cancellation; liability through cancellation; reasonable cancellation penalty; credit of any amount remaining consumer property	Threshold and CPA applicability remain separate; no universal penalty/refund formula. South African Government+1
ECTA §46 delayed performance	Unless otherwise agreed, failure to execute within 30 days after the day the supplier received the order, or within the agreed period	Consumer may cancel on seven days’ written notice	Actual order receipt, agreed period and notice facts required. South African Government
ECTA §46 unavailability	Supplier cannot perform because ordered goods/services are unavailable	Immediate notice and refund within 30 days after notification	Separate from the §46(2) delayed-performance notice route. South African Government

Affected workflow replacements and qualifications

Workflow	Narrow P11 replacement
Workflow 5 — fixed-term periodic fee	Retain the hypothetical 20-business-day calculation and the reasonable-penalty discussion. Add: at cancellation the supplier must also credit any amount that remains the consumer’s property. The example supplies no balance allocation or performance facts, so it calculates neither the reasonable cancellation charge nor the consumer-property credit. If both parties are juristic persons, §14 is excluded; if either party is natural, that exclusion alone does not apply. South African Government+1
Workflow 6 — partially performed fixed fee/misleading guarantee	Retain the classification under §§41 and 54 and the warning against automatic full refund. Remove C048. Correct support: C023, C024 and C051, with §54 at zero P53/printed p106. South African Government
Workflow 7 — contingent fee with no accepted settlement	Retain the assumed contractual conclusion that the contingency has not occurred. Remove C047. Correct support: C015 and C052, subject to the actual contract, fairness and performance evidence. No general fee permission or prohibition is added.
Workflow 8 — mixed legal work/funds control/juristic customer	Branch A — supplier also juristic: the transaction is between juristic persons, so §14(1) excludes the fixed-term section regardless of turnover or asset value. Branch B — supplier is a natural person: §14(1)’s exclusion is not established merely because the customer is juristic; the rest of CPA applicability and §14 must still be tested. In both branches, the juristic customer remains outside ECTA Chapter VII’s natural-person consumer definition, and regulation 44’s individual private-purpose presumption remains unavailable. The legal-work and funds-control permission questions remain separate. South African Government

Workflow 5’s original statement that the adverse §14 branch requires both parties to be juristic persons was correct and is retained.

P11 source and evidence register

Source ID	Issuer, title and complete literal primary URL	Exact body read and page locators	Edition/status, access date and limits
C_ZA-P11-S001	Presidency/Parliament, Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008, GG32186, GoN467, 29 April 2009. https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/32186_467.pdf	§2(6), zero P15 / printed p30; §14(1)–(2), zero P24 / printed p48; §14(3), zero P25 / printed p50; §54, zero P53 / printed p106; §§64–65, zero P59 / printed p118.	Fresh P11 primary-body read and page images inspected on 26 Oct 2026 PDT / 27 Oct 2026 UTC. Original enacted Act; not a complete October 2026 consolidation. P11 makes only the listed corrections. South African Government+4
C_ZA-P11-S002	Parliament, Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002, GG23708, 2 August 2002. https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201409/a25-02.pdf	§46(1)–(3), zero P23 / printed p46.	Fresh P11 primary-body read and page image inspected on 26 Oct 2026 PDT / 27 Oct 2026 UTC. Original Act; not a complete October 2026 consolidation. No general electronic-notice or cutoff-time rule is inferred. South African Government

Precisely dated reuse, not freshly refetched in P11: P08’s public-holiday list and Proclamation 346 remain the reviewed sources for its hypothetical clock examples. Their arithmetic and source status are unchanged.

Failure status retained: The previously mislinked 2026 CPA amendment attachment remains unresolved. P11 did not retry that attachment or search the whole currentness chain.

New atomic P11 claims

Claim ID	Exact bounded proposition	Primary authority	Continuing hold
C_ZA-P11-C001	CPA §14(1) excludes only a transaction between juristic persons. A juristic customer alone is insufficient if supplier status is unknown or natural.	P11 S001, §14(1), zero P24/printed p48. South African Government	All other CPA and fixed-term predicates remain.
C_ZA-P11-C002	On applicable §14 cancellation, the supplier must credit any amount remaining the consumer’s property, alongside accrued liability and a possible reasonable cancellation penalty.	P11 S001, §14(3)(a), (b)(i)–(ii), zero P25/printed p50. South African Government	Not a universal full refund or amount formula.
C_ZA-P11-C003	CPA §54—not P08 C048—is the primary partial-refund authority for deficient services; C048 remains an opt-out/currentness claim only.	P11 S001, §54, zero P53/printed p106. South African Government	Actual failure and reasonable portion must be established.
C_ZA-P11-C004	P08 C047 concerns ECTA ordinary days and cutoff uncertainty; it is not support for private fee forms or a contingent contractual trigger.	P08 C047 as supplied; P08 C015/C052 remain the relevant fee claims.	No new fee rule is created.
C_ZA-P11-C005	CPA §2(6)’s business-day calculation rule is located at zero P15/printed page 30.	P11 S001, zero P15/printed p30. South African Government	P08’s checked hypothetical calculations remain unchanged.
C_ZA-P11-C006	ECTA §46’s default period runs for 30 days after the day the supplier received the order unless otherwise agreed; failure permits seven days’ written cancellation notice, while unavailability has immediate-notice and 30-day-refund consequences.	P11 S002, §46(1)–(3), zero P23/printed p46. South African Government	Actual receipt, agreement, notice and availability facts required.
C_ZA-P11-C007	These repairs alter qualification, cross-references and locators only; all P08 currentness, contract, professional, funds, province, foreign-law, A097 and A098 holds remain.	P11 C001–C006 and supplied P08 record.	No whole-report or country acceptance.

Complete granular three-group coverage

R1 — Both-party juristic-person qualification: 7 rows

Row	Subquestion	Status	Finding/claim	Exact remaining issue
R1-01	Literal §14(1) actor scope	answered	Exclusion applies to transactions between juristic persons. C001	None for wording
R1-02	Juristic consumer only	answered negatively	Consumer status alone does not establish §14 exclusion. C001	Supplier status required
R1-03	Supplier natural-person branch	partial	§14(1) exclusion does not apply on that fact alone. C001	Full CPA/§14 predicates
R1-04	Supplier juristic branch	answered conditionally	If consumer also juristic, §14 excluded regardless threshold. C001	Actual entity status
R1-05	CPA §5 threshold separation	answered as preservation	Threshold remains a juristic-consumer CPA application test.	Later threshold/currentness hold retained
R1-06	ECTA natural-person definition separation	answered as preservation	Juristic customer remains outside Chapter VII consumer definition.	Other electronic-law questions held
R1-07	Workflow 8 correction	answered conditionally	Two supplier-status branches supplied. C001	No actual entity lookup

R2 — Consumer-owned cancellation credit: 6 rows

Row	Subquestion	Status	Finding/claim	Exact remaining issue
R2-01	Liability through cancellation	answered	Consumer remains liable for amounts owed through cancellation. C002	Actual ledger
R2-02	Reasonable cancellation penalty	answered at rule level	Supplier may impose a reasonable charge. C002	Regulation 5 factors and evidence
R2-03	Mandatory consumer-property credit	answered	Supplier must credit amount remaining consumer property. C002	Determine amount/status
R2-04	Full cash-refund inference	answered negatively	§14(3)(b)(ii) does not state a universal full cash refund. C002	Contract/performance/property analysis
R2-05	Relationship to §§64–65	partial	Those provisions may help determine ownership/treatment but remain separate. C002	Actual prepayment and performance facts
R2-06	Workflow 5	answered as qualification	Credit duty added; no numeric charge or credit calculated.	Actual balance and contract

R3 — Traceability, source and §46 trigger: 11 rows

Row	Subquestion	Status	Finding/claim	Exact remaining issue
R3-01	C048 in §54 narrative	answered as correction	Remove; use C024/C051 and §54. C003	None
R3-02	C048 in Workflow 6	answered as correction	Remove; no merits change. C003	None
R3-03	C047 in fee-form narrative	answered as correction	Remove; use C015/C052. C004	Actual contract
R3-04	C047 in Workflow 7	answered as correction	Remove; no merits change. C004	Actual contingent trigger
R3-05	CPA §2 locator	answered	Zero P15/printed p30. C005	None
R3-06	ECTA §46 default-period trigger	answered	After day supplier received order. C006	Actual receipt date
R3-07	Agreed-period alternative	answered	Parties may agree otherwise. C006	Actual term
R3-08	Seven-day written notice	answered at text level	Applies after default/agreed-period failure. C006	Notice/service facts
R3-09	Unavailability branch	answered at text level	Immediate notice; refund within 30 days after notification. C006	Actual unavailability/notification
R3-10	Exact live cutoff	unresolved by design	No new computation or notice-receipt interpretation. C006	Actual facts/current interpretation
R3-11	Substantive status of C047/C048	answered as preservation	Both remain valid in their own subject areas. C003–C004	Existing P08 holds retained

Retained substantive and currentness holds

Hold	P11 disposition
Full October 2026 CPA consolidation	Unresolved; unchanged
Full October 2026 ECTA consolidation	Unresolved; unchanged
Successor to the R2 million juristic-consumer threshold	Unresolved; unchanged
Mislinked April 2026 CPA amendment body	Unresolved; not retried
October 2026 opt-out draft-guideline status	Unchanged
Actual supplier and consumer legal-person status	Unknown; no lookup
Actual contract, fee clause, performance and cancellation facts	Unknown
Professional/reserved legal-work permission	Deferred
FAIS/financial-intermediation permission	Deferred
Funds custody, PDA, payment-system and attorney-trust authority	Deferred
Private cause of action, damages and full remedies	Deferred
P10 NCR/NCT conclusions	Unreviewed and not adopted
P06/P09 pending-review conclusions	Not promoted to accepted premises
Foreign law, jurisdiction and A098	Held
Whole-country, parent component and A097 acceptance	Held

Nine provincial/local branches

Province	Status after P11
Eastern Cape	Unexamined; held
Free State	Unexamined; held
Gauteng	Unexamined; held
KwaZulu-Natal	Unexamined; held
Limpopo	Unexamined; held
Mpumalanga	Unexamined; held
Northern Cape	Unexamined; held
North West	Unexamined; held
Western Cape	Unexamined; held

No national CPA or ECTA provision is converted into all-provincial, municipal, local-forum or sector-practice verification.

Actual displayed counts and self-check

Output	Count
P11 fresh source-register rows	2
New P11 atomic claims	7
Old-to-new affected-cell crosswalk rows	24
Full scoped replacement P08 claim rows	8
Corrected route-comparison rows	3
Affected workflow replacements	4
R1 coverage rows	7
R2 coverage rows	6
R3 coverage rows	11
Total core repair-coverage rows	24
Retained general-hold rows	15
Provincial rows	9
Total coverage/hold rows	48
New calculations	0
Recalculated prior clocks	0
New fees, refunds, awards, permissions or live deadlines	0

Consistency check

CPA §14(1) now consistently requires both parties to be juristic persons.
The CPA §5 juristic-consumer threshold remains separate.
The ECTA Chapter VII natural-person requirement remains separate.
Workflow 8 now forks on supplier legal status rather than assuming it.
CPA §14(3)(b)(ii)’s mandatory credit is visible.
The credit is not called a universal full refund.
§§64–65 remain qualified, separate ownership/allocation provisions.
C048 has been removed from §54 refund support but retained for its opt-out/currentness subject.
C047 has been removed from fee-form/contingent-fee support but retained for ECTA day computation.
CPA §2(6) is correctly located at zero P15/printed p30.
ECTA §46(1)’s order-receipt trigger is explicit.
§46(2) and §46(3) remain distinct.
The reviewed calendar examples and Proclamation 346 are unchanged and were not recomputed.
No actual entity, provider, licence, contract, borrower, property or case was searched.
No contact, filing, complaint, request, account action, site change, publication or local coordinator-file write occurred.
No independent-review, current-law certification or country-acceptance claim is made.

END C_ZA PASS-11

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Captured table 01

No. · P08 location · Prior problem · 7 data rows

No.	P08 location	Prior problem	P11 replacement/disposition
1	C_ZA-P08-C011	“CPA §14 excludes juristic-person transactions” could be read as exclusion whenever the customer alone is juristic.	Replace with the full claim cell below: §14(1) excludes a transaction between juristic persons, meaning both contracting parties must be juristic for that exclusion. South African Government
2	C_ZA-P08-C054	Said a below-threshold juristic person receives general CPA protection “but not §14,” without preserving the supplier-status predicate.	Replace with the full claim cell below: a below-threshold juristic consumer is excluded from §14 only when the supplier is also juristic; ECTA Chapter VII remains separately unavailable because its consumer is a natural person.
3	Authority/route comparison — fixed term	“Applicable natural-person fixed-term consumer agreement” was narrower than the text.	Replace the trigger with: “A covered fixed-term consumer agreement not excluded by §14(1)’s both-party-juristic rule.”
4	Workflow 8	Treated the small-company customer as sufficient to exclude §14 even though supplier status was unspecified.	Replace with the conditional supplier-status fork in the workflow table below.
5	Coverage G1-10	“Juristic person and CPA §14 — §14 excluded regardless threshold.”	Replace with: “§14 excluded regardless threshold only where the transaction is between juristic persons.”
6	Coverage G3-01	“CPA §14 actor scope — excludes juristic-person transactions.”	Replace with: “Excludes transactions where both supplier and consumer are juristic persons.”
7	Coverage G4-08	Mixed legal/funds workflow said §14 was unavailable because the customer was juristic.	Replace with a two-branch classification dependent on supplier status.

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Captured table 02

No. · P08 location · Prior position · 6 data rows

No.	P08 location	Prior position	P11 replacement/disposition
8	G3.1 fixed-term narrative	Discussed amounts owed through cancellation and a reasonable cancellation penalty but omitted the supplier’s credit duty.	Add the replacement paragraph below expressly covering §14(3)(b)(ii).
9	C_ZA-P08-C030	Covered only the reasonable cancellation charge and no-negation rule.	Replace with the full claim cell below, including accrued liability, reasonable penalty and credit of consumer-owned remainder.
10	Coverage G3-04	“Accrued amounts through cancellation.”	Retain and cross-reference the separate required credit of any amount remaining consumer property.
11	Coverage G3-05	“Reasonable cancellation penalty.”	Retain and add that the penalty operates alongside—not instead of—the §14(3)(b)(ii) credit duty.
12	Workflow 5	Calculated the notice period and discussed the penalty, but not the credit.	Add the bounded qualification in the workflow table below; no amount is calculated.
13	Authority/route comparison — fixed term effect	Listed 20-business-day cancellation and reasonable charge only.	Replace effect with: “20-business-day cancellation; liability through cancellation; reasonable cancellation penalty; and credit of any amount remaining the consumer’s property.”

Captured table 03

No. · P08 location · Prior problem · 11 data rows

No.	P08 location	Prior problem	P11 replacement/disposition
14	G2.8 — service quality and partial refunds	Cross-referenced P08 C048, which concerns the 2026 opt-out registry and missing amendment body.	Remove C048. Retain C024 and C051, supported by CPA §§41 and 54, especially §54 at zero P53/printed page 106. South African Government
15	Workflow 6 — partial performance/misleading guarantee	Included C048 as refund authority.	Remove C048; retain C023–C024 and C051 as applicable.
16	G2.3 — fee forms	Cross-referenced C047, which concerns ECTA ordinary-day computation.	Remove C047. Retain C015 and C052, together with the disclosed assumed contract, CPA fairness and actual-performance predicates.
17	Workflow 7 — contingent fee/no acceptance	Included C047 as support.	Remove C047; retain C015 and C052.
18	P08 S001 source row	Located §2 with P16–P19/printed 32–38.	Correct only §2: §2, including §2(6), is at zero P15/printed page 30. Keep §§4–6 separately at their previously stated pages and existing read limits. South African Government
19	G3.8 — delayed/unavailable electronic performance	Did not state §46(1)’s exact default-period trigger.	Add: the default 30 days run after the day on which the supplier received the order, unless otherwise agreed. South African Government
20	C_ZA-P08-C043	Referred generally to the delayed/unavailable-performance routes.	Replace with the full claim cell below, including §46(1), (2) and (3).
21	Coverage G3-19	Stated §46 routes but omitted the order-receipt trigger.	Add the exact §46(1) trigger and preserve the agreed-period branch.
22	Authority/route comparison — ECTA delay	Said failure within agreed/default period without defining the default start.	Replace with the complete route row below.
23	C_ZA-P08-C047	Correct substantive claim, but cited in unrelated fee passages.	Retain unchanged. Remove it only from G2.3 and Workflow 7.
24	C_ZA-P08-C048	Correct substantive opt-out/currentness claim, but cited in unrelated §54 passages.	Retain unchanged. Remove it only from G2.8 and Workflow 6.

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Captured table 04

P08 claim · Replacement claim text · Primary pinpoint · 8 data rows

P08 claim	Replacement claim text	Primary pinpoint	Continuing qualification
C_ZA-P08-C011 — replace	CPA §14(1) excludes a fixed-term transaction only where it is between juristic persons, meaning both the consumer and supplier are juristic. If either party is a natural person, §14(1) does not itself establish exclusion. ECTA Chapter VII separately defines its consumer as a natural person, and regulation 44 has its own narrower actor/purpose scope.	CPA §14(1), zero P24/printed p48. South African Government	General CPA application, fixed-term status, threshold and other exclusions remain material.
C_ZA-P08-C030 — replace	Upon an applicable §14 cancellation, the consumer remains liable for amounts owed through cancellation; the supplier may impose a reasonable cancellation penalty under §14(3)(b)(i) and regulation 5; and under §14(3)(b)(ii) the supplier must credit any amount that remains the consumer’s property as of cancellation.	CPA §14(3), zero P25/printed p50. South African Government	No universal penalty percentage, full-refund rule or formula for deciding what remains consumer property. Sections 64–65 and actual performance may be relevant separately.
C_ZA-P08-C043 — replace	Unless otherwise agreed, ECTA §46(1) requires execution within 30 days after the day the supplier received the order. Failure within that or the agreed period permits cancellation on seven days’ written notice under §46(2). Unavailability requires immediate notice and refund within 30 days after notification under §46(3).	ECTA §46(1)–(3), zero P23/printed p46. South African Government	Actual receipt, agreed performance period, notice and availability facts matter; no live deadline calculated.
C_ZA-P08-C054 — replace	A juristic consumer below the applicable §5 threshold may receive general CPA protection. CPA §14 is excluded only if the supplier is also juristic, because §14(1) applies to transactions between juristic persons. ECTA Chapter VII’s cooling-off protections remain separately unavailable to a juristic consumer because that Chapter defines its consumer as a natural-person end user.	CPA §§5,14; §14 at zero P24/printed p48; ECTA consumer definition retained from P08. South African Government	Actual entity status, threshold, service purpose and CPA transaction predicates remain required.
C_ZA-P08-C024 — retain	Consumer has rights to timely, competent service; remedy may be correction or reasonable partial refund based on failure.	CPA §54, zero P53/printed p106. South African Government	Remove C048 as a cross-reference; creditor rejection alone does not prove defective service.
C_ZA-P08-C051 — retain	Partial performance plus misleading guarantee may engage §§41 and 54, but does not dictate automatic full refund.	CPA §§41,54; §54 zero P53/printed p106. South African Government	Actual promise and failure required.
C_ZA-P08-C015 / C052 — retain	No universal private fee percentage exists; a contingent fee depends on the actual contract trigger, subject to fairness and performance rules.	CPA §§48–54 as previously cited in P08.	Remove C047 from the fee-form and Workflow 7 cross-references.
C_ZA-P08-C047 / C048 — retain substantively	C047 remains the ECTA ordinary-days/cutoff hold. C048 remains the 2026 opt-out-registry/mislinked-amendment-body hold.	Original P08 sources.	Neither supports the unrelated fee or §54 refund passages.

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Captured table 05

Route · Correct trigger · Correct principal effect · 3 data rows

Route	Correct trigger	Correct principal effect	Qualification
CPA §14 fixed term	Covered fixed-term consumer agreement not excluded because both parties are juristic persons	20-business-day recorded cancellation; liability through cancellation; reasonable cancellation penalty; credit of any amount remaining consumer property	Threshold and CPA applicability remain separate; no universal penalty/refund formula. South African Government +1
ECTA §46 delayed performance	Unless otherwise agreed, failure to execute within 30 days after the day the supplier received the order, or within the agreed period	Consumer may cancel on seven days’ written notice	Actual order receipt, agreed period and notice facts required. South African Government
ECTA §46 unavailability	Supplier cannot perform because ordered goods/services are unavailable	Immediate notice and refund within 30 days after notification	Separate from the §46(2) delayed-performance notice route. South African Government

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Captured table 06

Workflow · Narrow P11 replacement · 4 data rows

Workflow	Narrow P11 replacement
Workflow 5 — fixed-term periodic fee	Retain the hypothetical 20-business-day calculation and the reasonable-penalty discussion. Add: at cancellation the supplier must also credit any amount that remains the consumer’s property. The example supplies no balance allocation or performance facts, so it calculates neither the reasonable cancellation charge nor the consumer-property credit. If both parties are juristic persons, §14 is excluded; if either party is natural, that exclusion alone does not apply. South African Government +1
Workflow 6 — partially performed fixed fee/misleading guarantee	Retain the classification under §§41 and 54 and the warning against automatic full refund. Remove C048. Correct support: C023, C024 and C051, with §54 at zero P53/printed p106. South African Government
Workflow 7 — contingent fee with no accepted settlement	Retain the assumed contractual conclusion that the contingency has not occurred. Remove C047. Correct support: C015 and C052, subject to the actual contract, fairness and performance evidence. No general fee permission or prohibition is added.
Workflow 8 — mixed legal work/funds control/juristic customer	Branch A — supplier also juristic: the transaction is between juristic persons, so §14(1) excludes the fixed-term section regardless of turnover or asset value. Branch B — supplier is a natural person: §14(1)’s exclusion is not established merely because the customer is juristic; the rest of CPA applicability and §14 must still be tested. In both branches, the juristic customer remains outside ECTA Chapter VII’s natural-person consumer definition, and regulation 44’s individual private-purpose presumption remains unavailable. The legal-work and funds-control permission questions remain separate. South African Government

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South African Government +1

Captured table 07

Source ID · Issuer, title and complete literal primary URL · Exact body read and page locators · 2 data rows

Source ID	Issuer, title and complete literal primary URL	Exact body read and page locators	Edition/status, access date and limits
C_ZA-P11-S001	Presidency/Parliament, Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008, GG32186, GoN467, 29 April 2009. https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/32186_467.pdf	§2(6), zero P15 / printed p30; §14(1)–(2), zero P24 / printed p48; §14(3), zero P25 / printed p50; §54, zero P53 / printed p106; §§64–65, zero P59 / printed p118.	Fresh P11 primary-body read and page images inspected on 26 Oct 2026 PDT / 27 Oct 2026 UTC. Original enacted Act; not a complete October 2026 consolidation. P11 makes only the listed corrections. South African Government +4
C_ZA-P11-S002	Parliament, Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002, GG23708, 2 August 2002. https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201409/a25-02.pdf	§46(1)–(3), zero P23 / printed p46.	Fresh P11 primary-body read and page image inspected on 26 Oct 2026 PDT / 27 Oct 2026 UTC. Original Act; not a complete October 2026 consolidation. No general electronic-notice or cutoff-time rule is inferred. South African Government

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Captured table 08

Claim ID · Exact bounded proposition · Primary authority · 7 data rows

Claim ID	Exact bounded proposition	Primary authority	Continuing hold
C_ZA-P11-C001	CPA §14(1) excludes only a transaction between juristic persons. A juristic customer alone is insufficient if supplier status is unknown or natural.	P11 S001, §14(1), zero P24/printed p48. South African Government	All other CPA and fixed-term predicates remain.
C_ZA-P11-C002	On applicable §14 cancellation, the supplier must credit any amount remaining the consumer’s property, alongside accrued liability and a possible reasonable cancellation penalty.	P11 S001, §14(3)(a), (b)(i)–(ii), zero P25/printed p50. South African Government	Not a universal full refund or amount formula.
C_ZA-P11-C003	CPA §54—not P08 C048—is the primary partial-refund authority for deficient services; C048 remains an opt-out/currentness claim only.	P11 S001, §54, zero P53/printed p106. South African Government	Actual failure and reasonable portion must be established.
C_ZA-P11-C004	P08 C047 concerns ECTA ordinary days and cutoff uncertainty; it is not support for private fee forms or a contingent contractual trigger.	P08 C047 as supplied; P08 C015/C052 remain the relevant fee claims.	No new fee rule is created.
C_ZA-P11-C005	CPA §2(6)’s business-day calculation rule is located at zero P15/printed page 30.	P11 S001, zero P15/printed p30. South African Government	P08’s checked hypothetical calculations remain unchanged.
C_ZA-P11-C006	ECTA §46’s default period runs for 30 days after the day the supplier received the order unless otherwise agreed; failure permits seven days’ written cancellation notice, while unavailability has immediate-notice and 30-day-refund consequences.	P11 S002, §46(1)–(3), zero P23/printed p46. South African Government	Actual receipt, agreement, notice and availability facts required.
C_ZA-P11-C007	These repairs alter qualification, cross-references and locators only; all P08 currentness, contract, professional, funds, province, foreign-law, A097 and A098 holds remain.	P11 C001–C006 and supplied P08 record.	No whole-report or country acceptance.

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Captured table 09

Row · Subquestion · Status · 7 data rows

Row	Subquestion	Status	Finding/claim	Exact remaining issue
R1-01	Literal §14(1) actor scope	answered	Exclusion applies to transactions between juristic persons. C001	None for wording
R1-02	Juristic consumer only	answered negatively	Consumer status alone does not establish §14 exclusion. C001	Supplier status required
R1-03	Supplier natural-person branch	partial	§14(1) exclusion does not apply on that fact alone. C001	Full CPA/§14 predicates
R1-04	Supplier juristic branch	answered conditionally	If consumer also juristic, §14 excluded regardless threshold. C001	Actual entity status
R1-05	CPA §5 threshold separation	answered as preservation	Threshold remains a juristic-consumer CPA application test.	Later threshold/currentness hold retained
R1-06	ECTA natural-person definition separation	answered as preservation	Juristic customer remains outside Chapter VII consumer definition.	Other electronic-law questions held
R1-07	Workflow 8 correction	answered conditionally	Two supplier-status branches supplied. C001	No actual entity lookup

Captured table 10

Row · Subquestion · Status · 6 data rows

Row	Subquestion	Status	Finding/claim	Exact remaining issue
R2-01	Liability through cancellation	answered	Consumer remains liable for amounts owed through cancellation. C002	Actual ledger
R2-02	Reasonable cancellation penalty	answered at rule level	Supplier may impose a reasonable charge. C002	Regulation 5 factors and evidence
R2-03	Mandatory consumer-property credit	answered	Supplier must credit amount remaining consumer property. C002	Determine amount/status
R2-04	Full cash-refund inference	answered negatively	§14(3)(b)(ii) does not state a universal full cash refund. C002	Contract/performance/property analysis
R2-05	Relationship to §§64–65	partial	Those provisions may help determine ownership/treatment but remain separate. C002	Actual prepayment and performance facts
R2-06	Workflow 5	answered as qualification	Credit duty added; no numeric charge or credit calculated.	Actual balance and contract

Captured table 11

Row · Subquestion · Status · 11 data rows

Row	Subquestion	Status	Finding/claim	Exact remaining issue
R3-01	C048 in §54 narrative	answered as correction	Remove; use C024/C051 and §54. C003	None
R3-02	C048 in Workflow 6	answered as correction	Remove; no merits change. C003	None
R3-03	C047 in fee-form narrative	answered as correction	Remove; use C015/C052. C004	Actual contract
R3-04	C047 in Workflow 7	answered as correction	Remove; no merits change. C004	Actual contingent trigger
R3-05	CPA §2 locator	answered	Zero P15/printed p30. C005	None
R3-06	ECTA §46 default-period trigger	answered	After day supplier received order. C006	Actual receipt date
R3-07	Agreed-period alternative	answered	Parties may agree otherwise. C006	Actual term
R3-08	Seven-day written notice	answered at text level	Applies after default/agreed-period failure. C006	Notice/service facts
R3-09	Unavailability branch	answered at text level	Immediate notice; refund within 30 days after notification. C006	Actual unavailability/notification
R3-10	Exact live cutoff	unresolved by design	No new computation or notice-receipt interpretation. C006	Actual facts/current interpretation
R3-11	Substantive status of C047/C048	answered as preservation	Both remain valid in their own subject areas. C003–C004	Existing P08 holds retained

Captured table 12

Hold · P11 disposition · 15 data rows

Hold	P11 disposition
Full October 2026 CPA consolidation	Unresolved; unchanged
Full October 2026 ECTA consolidation	Unresolved; unchanged
Successor to the R2 million juristic-consumer threshold	Unresolved; unchanged
Mislinked April 2026 CPA amendment body	Unresolved; not retried
October 2026 opt-out draft-guideline status	Unchanged
Actual supplier and consumer legal-person status	Unknown; no lookup
Actual contract, fee clause, performance and cancellation facts	Unknown
Professional/reserved legal-work permission	Deferred
FAIS/financial-intermediation permission	Deferred
Funds custody, PDA, payment-system and attorney-trust authority	Deferred
Private cause of action, damages and full remedies	Deferred
P10 NCR/NCT conclusions	Unreviewed and not adopted
P06/P09 pending-review conclusions	Not promoted to accepted premises
Foreign law, jurisdiction and A098	Held
Whole-country, parent component and A097 acceptance	Held

Captured table 13

Province · Status after P11 · 9 data rows

Province	Status after P11
Eastern Cape	Unexamined; held
Free State	Unexamined; held
Gauteng	Unexamined; held
KwaZulu-Natal	Unexamined; held
Limpopo	Unexamined; held
Mpumalanga	Unexamined; held
Northern Cape	Unexamined; held
North West	Unexamined; held
Western Cape	Unexamined; held

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Output · Count · 16 data rows

Output	Count
P11 fresh source-register rows	2
New P11 atomic claims	7
Old-to-new affected-cell crosswalk rows	24
Full scoped replacement P08 claim rows	8
Corrected route-comparison rows	3
Affected workflow replacements	4
R1 coverage rows	7
R2 coverage rows	6
R3 coverage rows	11
Total core repair-coverage rows	24
Retained general-hold rows	15
Provincial rows	9
Total coverage/hold rows	48
New calculations	0
Recalculated prior clocks	0
New fees, refunds, awards, permissions or live deadlines	0

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C_ZA-P11-C001 Saved research record

CPA §14(1) excludes only a transaction between juristic persons. A juristic customer alone is insufficient if supplier status is unknown or natural.

Recorded check status: not yet checked

Primary authority: P11 S001, §14(1), zero P24/printed p48. South African Government
Continuing hold: All other CPA and fixed-term predicates remain.

Recorded coordinator check boundaries

coordinator review status: targeted_three_groups_addressed_with_holds
coordinator review scope: Wholepatch/all14tables;preciselydatedP08primaryreuseplus4actualCPAimagesseen,notindependent/currentconsolidationcertification.

C_ZA-P11-C002 Saved research record

On applicable §14 cancellation, the supplier must credit any amount remaining the consumer’s property, alongside accrued liability and a possible reasonable cancellation penalty.

Recorded check status: not yet checked

Primary authority: P11 S001, §14(3)(a), (b)(i)–(ii), zero P25/printed p50. South African Government
Continuing hold: Not a universal full refund or amount formula.

Recorded coordinator check boundaries

coordinator review status: targeted_three_groups_addressed_with_holds
coordinator review scope: Wholepatch/all14tables;preciselydatedP08primaryreuseplus4actualCPAimagesseen,notindependent/currentconsolidationcertification.

C_ZA-P11-C003 Saved research record

CPA §54—not P08 C048—is the primary partial-refund authority for deficient services; C048 remains an opt-out/currentness claim only.

Recorded check status: not yet checked

Primary authority: P11 S001, §54, zero P53/printed p106. South African Government
Continuing hold: Actual failure and reasonable portion must be established.

Recorded coordinator check boundaries

coordinator review status: targeted_three_groups_addressed_with_holds
coordinator review scope: Wholepatch/all14tables;preciselydatedP08primaryreuseplus4actualCPAimagesseen,notindependent/currentconsolidationcertification.

C_ZA-P11-C004 Saved research record

P08 C047 concerns ECTA ordinary days and cutoff uncertainty; it is not support for private fee forms or a contingent contractual trigger.

Recorded check status: not yet checked

Primary authority: P08 C047 as supplied; P08 C015/C052 remain the relevant fee claims.
Continuing hold: No new fee rule is created.

Recorded coordinator check boundaries

coordinator review status: targeted_three_groups_addressed_with_holds
coordinator review scope: Wholepatch/all14tables;preciselydatedP08primaryreuseplus4actualCPAimagesseen,notindependent/currentconsolidationcertification.

C_ZA-P11-C005 Saved research record

CPA §2(6)’s business-day calculation rule is located at zero P15/printed page 30.

Recorded check status: not yet checked

Primary authority: P11 S001, zero P15/printed p30. South African Government
Continuing hold: P08’s checked hypothetical calculations remain unchanged.

Recorded coordinator check boundaries

coordinator review status: targeted_three_groups_addressed_with_holds
coordinator review scope: Wholepatch/all14tables;preciselydatedP08primaryreuseplus4actualCPAimagesseen,notindependent/currentconsolidationcertification.

C_ZA-P11-C006 Saved research record

ECTA §46’s default period runs for 30 days after the day the supplier received the order unless otherwise agreed; failure permits seven days’ written cancellation notice, while unavailability has immediate-notice and 30-day-refund consequences.

Recorded check status: not yet checked

Primary authority: P11 S002, §46(1)–(3), zero P23/printed p46. South African Government
Continuing hold: Actual receipt, agreement, notice and availability facts required.

Recorded coordinator check boundaries

coordinator review status: targeted_three_groups_addressed_with_holds
coordinator review scope: Wholepatch/all14tables;preciselydatedP08primaryreuseplus4actualCPAimagesseen,notindependent/currentconsolidationcertification.

C_ZA-P11-C007 Saved research record

These repairs alter qualification, cross-references and locators only; all P08 currentness, contract, professional, funds, province, foreign-law, A097 and A098 holds remain.

Recorded check status: not yet checked

Primary authority: P11 C001–C006 and supplied P08 record.
Continuing hold: No whole-report or country acceptance.

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coordinator review status: targeted_three_groups_addressed_with_holds
coordinator review scope: Wholepatch/all14tables;preciselydatedP08primaryreuseplus4actualCPAimagesseen,notindependent/currentconsolidationcertification.

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C_ZA-P11-S001 Saved research record

Presidency/Parliament, Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008, GG32186, GoN467, 29 April 2009. https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/32186_467.pdf

Recorded check status: not yet checked

Exact body read and page locators: §2(6), zero P15 / printed p30; §14(1)–(2), zero P24 / printed p48; §14(3), zero P25 / printed p50; §54, zero P53 / printed p106; §§64–65, zero P59 / printed p118.
Edition/status, access date and limits: Fresh P11 primary-body read and page images inspected on 26 Oct 2026 PDT / 27 Oct 2026 UTC. Original enacted Act; not a complete October 2026 consolidation. P11 makes only the listed corrections. South African Government +4
Direct source URLs: https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/32186_467.pdf

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coordinator review status: targeted_three_groups_addressed_with_holds
coordinator review scope: Wholepatch/all14tables;preciselydatedP08primaryreuseplus4actualCPAimagesseen,notindependent/currentconsolidationcertification.

C_ZA-P11-S002 Saved research record

Parliament, Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002, GG23708, 2 August 2002. https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201409/a25-02.pdf

Recorded check status: not yet checked

Exact body read and page locators: §46(1)–(3), zero P23 / printed p46.
Edition/status, access date and limits: Fresh P11 primary-body read and page image inspected on 26 Oct 2026 PDT / 27 Oct 2026 UTC. Original Act; not a complete October 2026 consolidation. No general electronic-notice or cutoff-time rule is inferred. South African Government
Direct source URLs: https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201409/a25-02.pdf

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coordinator review status: targeted_three_groups_addressed_with_holds
coordinator review scope: Wholepatch/all14tables;preciselydatedP08primaryreuseplus4actualCPAimagesseen,notindependent/currentconsolidationcertification.

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