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'''GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE

(English text signed by the President.) (Assented to 22 December 2005.)

To amend the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, so as to effect a technical change; to re-determine the geographical areas of the nine provinces of the Republic of South Africa; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

E IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:—

Substitution of section 103 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, as amended by section 3 of the Constitution Eleventh Amendment Act of 2003

1. The following section is substituted for section 103 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as the Constitution): “Provinces

103. (1) The Republic has the following provinces:

Eastern Cape; Free State; Gauteng; KwaZulu-Natal; Limpopo;  [(e)] (f) Mpumalanga;  [(f)] (g) Northern Cape; Limpopo] North West; Western Cape.

(2) The [boundaries] geographical areas of the respective provinces [are those that existed when the Constitution took effect] comprise the sum of the indicated geographical areas reflected in the various maps referred to in the Notice listed in Schedule 1A.

(3) (a) Whenever the geographical area of a province is re-determined by an amendment to the Constitution, an Act of Parliament may provide for measures to regulate, within a reasonable time, the legal, practical and any other consequences of the re-determination.