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GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE

To provide for the dissolution of provincial councils and for the administration of provincial matters by administrators and the other members of executive committees appointed by the State President; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

(Afrikaans text signed by the State President.) (Assented to 24 June 1986.)

E IT ENACTED by the State President and the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:―

1. In this Act, unless the context indicates otherwise―

CHAPTER I

2. At the commencement of this Act every provincial council established by the Provincial Government Act, 1961 (Act No. 32 of 1961), shall cease to exist, and every person who immediately prior to that commencement was a member of any such council shall cease to be such a member.

3. Any person who immediately prior to the commencement of this Act occupies the office of administrator or member of the executive committee of a province, shall vacate his office at that commencement, unless an administrator and executive committee have then not yet been appointed in terms of section 7, in which event such person shall retain his office and he shall be deemed to have been appointed in terms of the said section until such time as such appointment is made.

4. Any ordinance―