To regulate the education and training of teachers; to provide for the establishment, functions and composition of the Advisory Council on Teachers’ Education and Training; to provide for the establishment, closure and governance of teachers’ education colleges; to provide for the establishment and administration of Teachers’ Education and Training Funds; to provide for the appointment of committees to investigate and monitor teachers’ education colleges; and to provide for matters incidental thereto.

To provide for the regulation of telecommunications services and networks, broadcasting, postal services and the use and allocation of radio spectrum; for that purpose the establishment of an independent Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia; to make provision for its powers and functions; the granting of special rights to telecommunications licensees; the creation of an Association to manage the .na internet domain name space and for matters connected therewith.

To amend certain definitions and insert new definitions; to provide for the establishment of temporary registration points outside Namibia; to provide for the appointment and remuneration of coordinators and assistant coordinators for registration purposes and for their powers, functions and duties and lines of reporting; to provide that parents and other persons may declare that a person who applies for registration as a voter has reached the age of 18 years; to provide for the publication, prior to registration of a political party, of certain particulars and for the objecting to such particulars and the hearing of appeals; to provide that staff members appointed by the Commission on the recommendation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs may hear appeals in relation to any refusal to register a person as a voter; to provide that the Commission may accredit persons to provide voter education in respect of elections; to provide for registered political parties to conduct voter education to members, supporters and sympathisers; to provide that in the case of an election for the President or for members of the National Assembly the poll at polling stations outside Namibia shall take place 14 days before the day determined upon which the poll shall take place within Namibia; to provide that the Commission may accredit persons to observe elections; to provide for voting by way of voting machines; to allow for the counting of votes at polling stations and for the posting of results at polling stations; to provide for the determination by lot of the result of an election of members of the National Assembly or of members of a local authority; to extend the offences relating to impersonation; to provide for additional offences; and to provide for matters incidental thereto.

To amend the Value-Added Tax Act, 2000, so as to redefine the expressions “charitable organisation” and “life insurance contract”; to exclude passenger vehicles used for demonstration purposes from tax; to provide that a registered person does not have to declare an output tax when indemnified under a short-term insurance contract, where input tax was denied; to exclude all subsidies, grants and bursaries from tax; to make the erection or extension of or improvements to buildings and the sale of land and buildings taxable; to provide that certain levies become taxable; to abolish the 30% tax rate; to further provide for the determination of the value of a supply between connected persons; to allow for a certain levy to be deducted from the value of a bet; to provide that open market values may be used where goods are imported and required to be cleared; to compel importers who arranged VAT import accounts to also submit import declarations in cases where no goods were imported; to require that export declarations be obtained in respect of imports; to provide that registration may by agreement take effect from an earlier date; to provide that a registered person may claim input tax on used goods where the seller was not entitled to a deduction; to provide that charitable organisations, children’s homes, old-age homes and orphanages may claim input tax on the acquisition of passenger vehicles; to extend the basis of the apportionment formula; to establish a new value on tax refunds to non-citizens who purchased goods in Namibia; to provide that certain financial assistance agreements be deemed to be technical assistance agreements to qualify for tax refunds; to repeal the Schedule of goods subject to the 30% tax rate; to include the erection or extension of or improvements to buildings and the sale of land and buildings for residential purposes and
telecommunication services to residential accounts in the Schedule of zerorated supplies; and to provide for matters connected therewith.