Assumption of office by President and Vice-Presidents

94 Assumption of office by President and Vice-Presidents (1) Persons elected as President and Vice-Presidents assume office when they take, before the Chief Justice or the next most senior judge available. the oaths of President and Vice-President respectively in the forms set out in the Third Schedule, which oaths they must take— (a) onthe ninth day after they are declared to be elected; or (b) in the event of a challenge to the validity of their election, within forty- eight hours after the Constitutional Court has declared them to be the winners. (2) The incumbent President continues in office until the assumption of office by the President-elect in terms of subsection (1). (3) A Vice-President who becomes President on the death, resignation or removal from office of the President assumes office when he or she takes, before the Chief Justice or the next most senior judge available, the oath of President in the form set out in the Third Schedule, which oath he or she must take as soon as possible and in any event within forty-eight hours alter the office of President became vacant.