Demobilisation Amendment Act

2 December 1998 No. 1557.

2 Desember 1998 that the President has assented is hereby published to the for general Hierby word bekend gemaak dat die President keuring geheg het aan die onderstaande Wet wat hierby algemene inligting gepubliseer word:- sy goed- ter No. I78 of 1998: Demobilisation Amendment Act, 1998 No. 128 van 1998: Wysigingswet op Demobilisasie, 1998. 2 No. 19.543 (;OVE.KN~lE~l.GAZETTE.

1 DECEMBER 1998 Act No. 128, 1998 DEMOBlLlSATION AMENDMENI- ACT. lY98 GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE: [ 1 Words in bold type in squat-c h~~acl;et~ indicate omissions from existing enactments. Words underlined with a holid line indicate insertions in existing enactments. (English text signed by the President.) (Assenred to 20 Nownber 1998.) ACT To amend further technical amendments; regulate the Demobilisation Act, 1996, so as to amend certain definitions; the payment of a dependant’s and to provide for matters connected to benefit; and to effect certain therewith. B E IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:- Amendment of section 1 of Act 99 of 1996

1. Section I of the Demobilisation Act. 1996 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), is hereby amended- (a) by the substitution for the definition of “closing date” of the following definition: “ ‘closing date’. date 12 months operation] 31 March 1999;“: and for the purposes of section [6(l)(c)] S(I)(c), means [the into the date on which this Act comes after (b) by the substitution in the definition of “dependant” for the words preceding paragraph (0) of the following words: ‘- ‘dependant’, for the purposes of section [5] I, includes-“. Amendment of section 3 of Act 99 of 1996

2. Section 3 of the principal Act by the substitution (a) is hereby amended- for paragraph (0) of subsection (I) of the following 5 IO 15 paragraph: “(I>) determine whether demobilisation programme an applicant the in terms of sections [4 and 515 and 7;“; and to benefit is eligible under (0) by the substitution for paragraph (e) of subsection (I) of the following 20 paragraph: “(e) determine the validity of the mandate of any person to act on behalf of the applicant referred to in section [6(2)] 8(2); and”. Amendment of section 7 of Act 99 of 1996

3. Section 7 of the principal Act hy the substitution (a) is hereby amended- 25 for subsections (I) and (2) of the following subsections, respectively: “(I) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, a surviving dependant of any person who, but for his or her death, would have been 4 No. 19543 GOVERNMENT GAZE-II-E. 2 DECEMBER 1998 Act No. 128.1998 DEMOBILISATION AMENDMENT ACT, I998 eligible subsection that person would have been entitled, had he or she survived. for demobilisation (3). be entitled terms of section the demobilisation to receive [4] 5 shall, subject gratuity to to which in (2) For the purposes of this section, section [4(c)] 5(I)(c) shall not apply in determining the eligibility of the deceased.“; and 5 (b) by the deletion of subsection (4). Short title and commencement

4. This Act is called the Demobilisation Amendment Act, 1998, and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 18 February 1997.