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Chapter 6—Provinces

Provinces

The Republic has the following provinces:

Eastern Cape Free State Gauteng KwaZulu-Natal Mpumalanga Northern Cape Northern Province North West Western Cape.

The boundaries of the provinces are those that existed when the Constitution took effect.

Legislative authority of provinces

The legislative authority of a province is vested in its provincial legislature, and confers on the provincial legislature the power —

to pass a constitution for its province or to amend any constitution passed by it in terms of sections 142  and  143  ; to pass legislation for its province with regard to —

any matter within a functional area listed in Schedule 4  ; any matter within a functional area listed in Schedule 5  ; any matter outside those functional areas, and that is expressly assigned to the province by national legislation; and any matter for which a provision of the Constitution envisages the enactment of provincial legislation; and

to assign any of its legislative powers to a Municipal Council in that province.

The legislature of a province, by a resolution adopted with a supporting vote of at least two thirds of its members, may request Parliament to change the name of that province.

A provincial legislature is bound only by the Constitution and, if it has passed a constitution for its province, also by that