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GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9 JUNE 1982

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the South African Transport Services Act, 1981 (Act No. 65 of 1981); (xxii)

“publication” means any newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, book, hand-bill or poster, and includes, for the purposes of section 56 (1) (c), any record or other object in or on which sound has been recorded for reproduction; (xxiii)

“public body” means any institution or body contemplated in section 84 (l) (f) of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1961 (Act No. 32 of 1961), and includes any institution or body established by law; (xvii)

“public office” means any office or post in the service of the State or a public body, and includes any office or post in the South African Defence Force or the Reserve referred to in sections 5 and 6, respectively, of the Defence Act, 1957 (Act No. 44 of 1957); (xvi)

“this Act” includes any regulation made under any provision thereof; (x)

“unlawful organization” means an organization—

which, before the commencement of this Act, was by or under any law repealed by section 73 declared to be an unlawful organization for the purposes ot the repealed law in question, and which immediately prior to the said commencement is such an unlawful organization; or

which, under section 4, is at any time after the said commencement declared to be an unlawful organization, and includes any branch, section or committee of any such organization and any local, regional or subsidiary body forming part of any such organization; (xv)

“violence” includes the inflicting of bodily harm upon or killing of, or the endangering of the safety of, any person, or the damaging, destruction or endangering of property. (viii)

CHAPTER 1

2. (1) The Minister of Justice shall, subject to the provisions of subsection (2), appoint an officer, to be known as the Director of Security Legislation, who shall, subject to the control and directions of the Minister, perform the functions assigned to the Director by this Act as well as such other functions as the Minister may assign to him from time to time.

(2) The Minister of Justice shall, subject to the laws governing the public service and with the concurrence of the Minister, appoint to the office of Director of Security Legislation a person holding a degree or diploma in law.

(3) The Minister of Justice may appoint, subject to the laws governing the public service and with the concurrence of the Minister, one or more Deputy Directors of Security Legislation or one or more Assistant Directors of Security Legislation or one or more such Deputy Directors and one or more such Assistant Directors, who shall respectively have the power to perform, subject to the control and directions of the Director, any of the functions of the Director.

(4) Whenever it becomes necessary to appoint an acting Director, the Minister may appoint a Deputy Director referred to in subsection (3) or, in the absence of such a Deputy Director, an Assistant Director referred to in that subsection to act as Director for the period for which such appointment is necessary.

3. The secretarial work incidental to the performance of the functions of the Director shall be performed by such persons in the service of the State as the Minister of Justice may with the concurrence of the Minister designate for that purpose.