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GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE

To amend the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1961, to provide that certain acts in respect of the National Flag of the Republic shall be punishable as offences; to increase the maximum fine for a contravention of section 13; to provide for the assignment of powers, duties and functions entrusted to a Minister by any law; to provide that a member of the President’s Council shall vacate his seat if he is nominated as a candidate for election at certain elections; to determine the circumstances in which the remuneration and allowances of the members of the President’s Council shall be reviewed; to further regulate the reference of any matter to a committee of the President’s Council; and to adjust the provisions relating to the alteration of provincial boundaries; to amend the provisions of the Interpretation Act, 1957, relating to the assignment of powers, duties and functions entrusted to a Minister by any law; to amend the Admission of Persons to the Republic Regulation Act, 1972, to authorize removal from the Republic on the ground of a contravention of section 5A or 13 of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1961; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

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

1. The following section is hereby inserted in the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), after section 5: