Provincial Government Act, 1986/1987-07-08

as amended by

Constitutional Laws Amendment Act, No. 32 of 1987

15. (1) The State President may assign the administration of any provision in any law which entrusts to a Minister referred to in section 20 (b) or (c) of the Constitution Act any power, duty or function, to the administrator of any province―

(2) The administrator of a province may in writing authorize― to exercise or perform in general or in a particular case or in cases of a particular nature, any power, duty or function conferred or imposed on the administrator by or in terms of this Act or any other Act of Parliament, except the power to issue proclamations or make regulations.

(3) The said administrator may similarly authorize any institution or body contemplated in section 84 (1) (f) of the Provincial Government Act, 1961 (Act No. 32 of 1961), or approved by him, and any such institution or body so authorized may, with the approval of the administrator concerned, further so authorize any person in its employ.

(4) Whenever the administration of a law or a provision of a law referred to in subsection (1) has been assigned to the administrator of a province under the said subsection, the provisions of section 10 (5) and (5A) of the Interpretation Act, 1957 (Act No. 33 of 1957), shall apply mutatis mutandis as if that administrator, the provincial administration concerned, and an officer of that administration, were a Minister of State, the department of State controlled by him, and an officer in the public service, respectively. [Sub-s. (4) added by s. 31 of Act No. 32 of 1987.]

22. The laws mentioned in― [S. 22 substituted by s. 32 of Act No. 32 of 1987.]