Watch Video of Gas Amendment Bill Public Hearings Eastern Cape Province 17-19 January 2022. The public hearings on the Bill forms part of the committee’s public participation initiatives and have already been completed in Mpumalanga, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. In July 2021, the committee received 19 written submissions on the Bill from civil society organisations. The Bill aims to amend the Gas Act of 2001 to provide, among other things, for the promotion of the orderly development of the gas in