 |  | Section |
| A. | Glossary | A |
| B. | Purpose of Manual | B |
| C. | Historical Background | C |
| D. | Institutional Arrangements | D |
| D.1 | Legislation, Regulations, Orders and Rules | |
| D.2 | Delegation of Powers | |
| D.3 | Liaison with Department of Finance | |
| D.4 | Functions of Authorised Dealers | |
| D.5 | Applications to Exchange Control | |
| D.6 | Organisation of Exchange Control | |
| D.7 | Exchange Control Territory | |
| D.8 | Resident and Non-resident Status | |
| E. | General Policy Approach to Exchange Control | E |
| F. | General Requirements, Procedures and Norms Applied with respect to Particular Types of Transactions | F |
| F.1 | Introduction | |
| F.2 | Current Payments by Residents | G |
| 2.1 | Payments for merchandise imports | |
| 2.1.1 | General requirements | |
| 2.1.2 | Required procedures and documents | |
| 2.1.3 | Purpose of control | |
| 2.1.4 | Matters to be referred to Exchange Control | |
| 2.1.5 | Norms applied and factors considered | |
| 2.1.6 | Payments on a cash-with-order basis | |
| 2.1.7 | Payments by means of credit and/or debit cards | |
| 2.1.8 | Acquisition of patents, copy-rights, trademarks, franchises and/or intellectual property in general |  |
| 2.2 | Personal and business matters | H |
| 2.2.1 | Purpose of control | |
| 2.2.2 | Single discretionary allowance | |
| 2.2.2.1 | Travel allowances and associated facilities | |
| 2.2.3 | Temporary exportation of personal effects and jewellery |  |
| 2.2.4 | Temporary exportation of motor vehicles, caravans, trailers, horse-boxes and motor/sail boats overland and of ocean going yachts by residents |  |
| 2.2.5 | Renewal of passports, obtaining visas, copies of birth/death certificates, testimonials, degrees and/or diplomas |  |
| 2.2.6 | South African Residents proceeding abroad on a temporary basis |  |
| 2.2.7 | Study facilities | |
| 2.2.8 | Conference, congress, seminar and examination fees | |
| 2.2.9 | Medical and dental expenses | |
| 2.2.10 | Subscriptions | |
| 2.2.11 | Export of South African Reserve Bank notes | |
| 2.3 | Payments of a business nature | I |
| 2.3.1 | Remittance of dividends profits and income from the RSA | |
| 2.3.2 | Royalties and fees arising from the use of copyrights, designs, patents and trademarks | |
| 2.3.3 | Directors' fees to non-residents | |
| 2.3.4 | - | |
| 2.3.5 | - | |
| 2.3.6 | Legal fees to non-residents | |
| 2.3.7 | Other fees | |
| 2.3.8 | Advertising fees/ exhibition/trade fair expenses | |
| 2.3.9 | Payments to visiting artistes, entertainers and sportsmen | |
| 2.3.10 | Payments to foreign crew members calling at South African ports | |
| 2.3.11 | Allowances for business travel | |
| 2.3.12 | Air fares for overseas visitors | |
| 2.3.13 | Travel between destinations outside the Republic |  |
| 2.3.14 | Freight payments and ships and aircraft disbursements | |
| 2.3.15 | Transfer abroad of reinsurance premiums | |
| 2.3.16 | Technical service payments | |
| 2.3.17 | Registration of drugs | |
| 2.3.18 | Registration on agrochemical products | |
| 2.3.19 | Tender documentation | |
| 2.3.20 | Tender guarantees/bid bonds | |
| 2.3.21 | Performance guarantees | |
| 2.3.22 | Court judgement payments | |
| 2.3.23 | Refunds | |
| 2.3.24 | Advance payment guarantees | |
| 2.3.25 | Transportation costs and cash floats | |
| 2.3.26 | Rental and lease payments | |
| F.3 | Payments by "Temporary Residents" in the RSA | J |
| 3.1 | Payments by embassies, high commissions, legations, consulates-general, consulates and official overseas representatives | |
| 3.2 | Payments by other foreign nationals who have taken up temporary residence in the Republic | |
| 3.2.1 | Norms applied | |
| 3.2.2 | General requirements | |
| F.4 | Receipts of Foreign Currency on Current Transactions | K |
| 4.1 | Purpose of control | |
| 4.2 | Receipts from merchandise exports | |
| 4.2.1 | General requirements | |
| 4.2.2 | Sales periods and credit | |
| 4.2.3 | Sale of currency | |
| 4.2.4 | Special stipulations | |
| 4.2.4.1 | Exports on a consignment basis | |
| 4.2.4.2 | Replacement goods, short shipments and goods under guarantee | |
| 4.2.4.3 | Export of defective goods for replacement | |
| 4.2.4.4 | Export of advertising matter and trade samples | |
| 4.2.4.5 | Return of goods for which no payment has been made | |
| 4.2.4.6 | Temporary export of goods to Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mauritius, Mocambique, Seychelles, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe | |
| 4.2.4.7 | Export of philatelic and numismatic items (Excluding Krugerrand coins) | |
| 4.2.4.8 | Temporary exportation of motor vehicles, caravans, trailers, horse-boxes and motor/sail boats. | |
| 4.2.4.9 | Export of motor vehicles in the possession of non-residents leaving the Common Monetary Area for any other country | |
| 4.2.5 | - | |
| 4.2.6 | - | |
| 4.2.7 | Setting off foreign liabilities against foreign accruals | |
| 4.3 | Other exports |  |
| 4.3.1 | Service receipts |  |
| 4.3.2 | Disposal of patents, copy-rights, trademarks, franchises and/or intellectual property in general |  |
| F.5 | Transfer Payments | L |
| 5.1 | Gifts | |
| 5.1.1 | Monetary gifts and loans | |
| 5.1.2 | Gift parcels | |
| 5.1.3 | Krugerrand coins |  |
| 5.2 | Donations | |
| 5.2.1 | Donations to missionaries by private individuals |  |
| 5.2.2 | Donations to missionaries by religious bodies |  |
| 5.2.3 | Donations to charitable, religious or educational bodies |  |
| 5.3 | Maintenance | |
| 5.3.1 | General requirements | |
| 5.3.2 | Matters to be referred to Exchange Control | |
| 5.3.3 | Factors to be consider | |
| 5.4 | Alimony and child support payments |  |
| 5.5 | Legacies and distributions from estates | M |
| 5.5.1 | Estates of persons regarded as permanent residents of the RSA at the time of death | |
| 5.5.1.1 | Legacy transfers | |
| 5.5.1.2 | Export of jewellery | |
| 5.5.1.3 | Export of personal effects | |
| 5.5.1.4 | Export of other assets | |
| 5.5.2 | South African estates of persons, including emigrants, domiciled outside the CMA at the time of death | |
| 5.5.2.1 | Legacy transfers | |
| 5.5.2.2 | Export of jewellery and personal effects | |
| 5.2.3 | Inheritances by South African residents from non-resident estates | |
| 5.6 | Inter vivos trusts | N |
| 5.6.1 | Purpose of control | |
| 5.6.2 | Norms applied and factors considered | |
| 5.6.3 | Own-asset trust | |
| 5.6.3.1 | Established prior to emigration | |
| 5.6.3.2 | Established subsequent to emigration | |
| 5.6.4 | Third-party funded trust | |
| 5.6.4.1 | Emigrants | |
| 5.6.4.2 | Original non-residents | |
| 5.6.5 | Required procedures | |
| 5.7 | Wedding expenses and Bar/Bat Mitzvah ceremonies | |
| F.6 | Capital Transactions | O |
| 6.1 | Foreign investment by South African residents | |
| 6.1.1 | Private individuals (natural persons) | |
| 6.1.2 | South African companies | |
| 6.1.2.1 | Norms applied and factors considered | |
| 6.1.2.2 | Investments not exceeding R500 million | |
| 6.1.2.3 | Investments exceeding R500 million | |
| 6.1.2.4 | Reporting requirement | |
| 6.1.2.5 | Expansion of business abroad and remission of funds | |
| 6.1.3 | Loans by residents to non-residents | |
| 6.1.4 | Portfolio investments | |
| 6.1.4.1 | Portfolio investments by residents | |
| 6.1.4.2 | Portfolio investments by South African institutional investors | |
| 6.1.4.3 | Prudential limit on foreign diversification by Authorised Dealers |  |
| 6.1.4.4 | South Africa Private Equity Funds |  |
| 6.1.5 | Share incentive schemes offered by foreign companies | |
| 6.1.6 | Trade finance | |
| 6.1.7 | Borrowing abroad by residents | |
| 6.1.7.1 | Control over borrowing abroad by residents | |
| 6.1.7.2 | Purpose of control | |
| 6.1.7.3 | Authority to Authorised Dealers | |
| 6.1.7.4 | Categories of loan finance |  |
| 6.1.7.4.1 | Trade finance, short-term working capital loans and long term loans |  |
| 6.1.7.4.2 | Loans from non-resident shareholders to affected persons |  |
| 6.1.7.5 | Fraudulent practices involving purported foreign loan facilities |  |
| 6.1.8 | The debt standstill arrangements | P |
| 6.2 | Capital transactions of non-residents | Q |
| 6.2.1 | Local financial assistance to affected persons and non-residents | |
| 6.2.1.1 | General restriction | |
| 6.2.1.2 | Purpose of control | |
| 6.2.1.3 | General requirements | |
| 6.2.1.4 | Authority to Authorised Dealers | |
| 6.2.1.5 | Matters to be referred to Exchange Control | |
| 6.2.1.6 | Applications to Authorised Dealers | |
| 6.2.1.7 | Security given by non-residents | |
| 6.2.1.8 | Loans from non-resident shareholders | |
| 6.2.2 | Disinvestment from the RSA | |
| 6.2.3 | The financial rand system | R |
| 6.2.4 | Securities control | S |
| 6.2.4.1 | Definitions | |
| 6.2.4.2 | Control on dealings in non-resident owned securities | |
| 6.2.4.3 | Form of control | |
| 6.2.4.4 | Purpose of control | |
| 6.2.4.5 | General requirements | |
| | Securities held on behalf of non-residents | |
| | Securities purchased by non-residents | |
| 6.2.4.6 | Duties of banks, stockbrokers and transfer secretaries | |
| 6.2.5 | Emigration facilities | T |
| 6.2.5.1 | Purpose of control | |
| 6.2.5.2 | Qualification for emigration facilities | |
| 6.2.5.3 | Application for emigration facilities | |
| 6.2.5.4 | Facilities for which emigrants qualify | |
| | Cash allowance | |
| | Foreign capital allowance | |
| | Export of household and personal effects and motor vehicles | |
| 6.2.5.5 | Authority to Authorised Dealers | |
| 6.2.5.6 | Matters to be referred to Exchange Control | |
| 6.2.5.7 | Time and method of provision of exchange | |
| 6.2.5.8 | Control of blocked South African assets | |
| 6.2.5.9 | Purposes for which emigrants' blocked funds may be used | |
| 6.2.5.10 | Effect of emigration on emigrants' borrowings in South Africa | |
| 6.2.5.11 | Effect of emigration on the local borrowings of a South African company in which an emigrant retains an equity interest | |
| 6.2.5.12 | South African income accruing to emigrants | |
| 6.2.5.13 | Emigration of a Lloyd's of London member | |
| 6.2.5.14 | Income tax refunds | |
| 6.2.5.15 | Retirement annuity policies | |
| 6.2.6 | Transactions of immigrants | U |
| 6.2.6.1 | - | |
| 6.2.6.2 | Requirements upon taking up permanent residence | |
| 6.2.6.3 | Concessionary periods applicable to immigrants | |
| 6.2.6.4 | Income on foreign assets accruing to immigrants | |
| 6.2.6.5 | Other concessions available to immigrants | |
| F.7 | Sundry Topics | V |
| 7.1 | Hedging | |
| 7.1.1 | General | |
| 7.1.2 | Forward Cover or Hedging transactions between Authorised Dealers and Residents | |
| 7.1.3 | Forward Cover or Hedging transactions between Authorised Dealers and Non-Residents | |
| 7.1.4 | Hedging instruments | |
| 7.1.5 | Hedging operations |  |
| 7.1.6 | Foreign currency against foreign currency |  |
| 7.1.7 | Surrenders of extensions by means of swaps |  |
| 7.1.8 | Currency futures/currency options |  |
| 7.2 | - |  |
| 7.3 | Foreign bank accounts | |
| 7.3.1 | Purpose of control | |
| 7.3.2 | Norms applied and factors considered | |
| 7.3.3 | Customer foreign currency accounts | |
| 7.4 | Purchase and sale of gold | |
| 7.5 | Importation and exportation of bank notes | |
| 7.5.1 | Foreign currency bank notes | |
| 7.5.2 | South African Reserve Bank notes | |
| 7.6 | Insurance by residents of the Republic | |
| 7.7 | Merchanting trade | |
| 7.8 | Barter and counter trade |  |
| 7.9 | Inward Listings by foreign entities on South African exchanges | W |
| 7.9.1 | Introduction |  |
| 7.9.2 | General |  |
| 7.9.3 | Measures applicable to inward listed debt instruments, derivative instruments and equity issues on the JSE Limited |  |
| 7.9.3.1 | Types of instruments |  |
| 7.9.3.2 | Acquisition issue |  |
| 7.9.3.3 | Issue of shares for cash |  |
| 7.9.3.4 | Capital raising through new debt listings |  |
| 7.9.3.5 | Rights offers |  |
| 7.9.3.6 | Suspension of listings |  |
| 7.9.3.7 | Main index inclusion |  |
| 7.9.3.8 | Denomination of debt instruments, equity issues and derivative instruments |  |
| 7.9.4 | Measures applicable to inward listed debt instruments on BESA |  |
| 7.9.4.1 | Denomination of debt instruments |  |
| 7.9.4.2 | Types of instruments |  |
| 7.9.4.3 | Capital raising through new listings |  |
| 7.9.5 | Special dispensation to local brokers to facilitate the trading of inward listed shares |  |