- Government
Gazette
14635
-
- STATE
PRESIDENT'S
OFFICE No.
378.
12
March
1993
-
It
is
hereby
notified
that
the
State
President
has
assented
to
the following
Act
which
is
hereby
published
for
general
information:-
-
- NO.
18
OF
1993:
GENERAL
LAW
AMENDMENT
ACT,
1993.
-
- Act
No.
18,
1993
GENERAL
LAW
AMENDMENT
ACT,
1993
-
- GENERAL
EXPLANATORY
NOTE:
-
- Words
in
bold
type
indicate
omissions
from
existing
enactments.
Words
in
italics
indicate
insertions
in
existing
enactments.
-
ACT
-
- To
amend
section
34
of
the
General
Law
Amendment
Act,
1972,
so
as
to make
further
provision
for
the
lapsing
in
certain
circumstances
of
certain
conditions
of
title
or
other
conditions
applying
in
respect
of
immovable
property
owned
by
the
State;
and
to
provide
for
matters
connected
therewith.
-
(Afrikaans
text
signed
by
the
State
President.)
(Assented
to
26
February
1993.)
-
- BE
IT
ENACTED
by
the
State
President
and
the
Parliament
of
the
Republic of
South
Africa,
as
follows:-
-
- Substitution
of
section
34
of
Act
102
of
1972
-
- 1.
The
following
section
is
hereby
substituted
for
section
34
of
the
-
General
Law
Amendment
Act,
1972:
-
- "Certain
conditions
of
title
or
other
conditions
applying
in
respect of
immovable
property
owned
by
the
State
to
lapse
in
certain
circumstances
-
- 34.
(1)
If
the
State
owns
immovable
property
which
is
subject
to
a condition
of
title,
or
a
condition
contained
in
any
other
-
document,
to
the
effect
that
such
property
may
or
shall
only
be used
for
certain
purposes
or
only
by
the
State
and
that
the
-
ownership
of
such
property
shall
be
transferred
to
the
person
from
whom such
property
was
acquired
or
to
some
other
person
when
such
property
-
is
no
longer
required
or
used
for
such
purposes
or
used
by
the
-
State,
and
the
Minister
of
Agriculture
Public
Works,
-
by
means
of
a
notice,
in
both
official
languages,
published
simultaneously
in
the
Gazette
and
a
newspaper
circulating
in
the
area
-
in
which
such
property
is
situate,
makes
known
that
such
property
is
no longer
required
or
used
for
such
purposes,
or
used
by
the
-
State,
such
condition
of
title
or
other
condition
shall
-
lapse
after
the
expiry
of
a
period
of
one
year
from
the
date
on
which
-
- such
notice
was
published,
unless
the
person
from
whom
such
property
was
acquired
or
such
other
person
provides
the
Minister
of Agriculture
Public
Works
before
the
expiry
of
such
period
-
with
all
documents
required
for
the
transfer
of
the
ownership
of
such property
in
accordance
with
such
condition
of
title
or
other
condition.
-
- (2)
If
any
condition
of
title
has
lapsed
under
subsection
(1),
the officer
in
charge
of
the
deeds
registry
concerned
shall
upon
the application
of
the
Minister
of
Agriculture
Public
Works
-
or
any
officer
in
the
public
service
authorized
thereto
by
the
-
Minister,
and
upon
submission
of
the
relevant
title
deed
and
such
other
-
documents
as
may
be
required
by
such
first-mentioned
officer,
record
-
the
fact
that
such
condition
of
title
has
lapsed
under
subsection
(1)
-
on
such
title
deed.
-
- (3)
If
the
hospital
trustees
referred
to
in
section
11
of
the Hospital
Ordinance,
1946
(Ordinance
No.
18
of
1946),
of
the
province
of the
Cape
of
Good
Hope,
or
the
educational
trustees
referred
to
in section
192
of
the
Education
Ordinance,
1956
(Ordinance
No.
20
of
-
1956),
of
that
province,
have
acquired
immovable
property
which
is subject
to
a
condition
of
title
or
other
condition
referred
to
-
in
subsection
(1),
the
provisions
of
subsections
(1)
and
(2)
shall
mutatis
mutandis
apply
in
respect
of
such
condition
of
title
or other
condition:
Provided
that
for
the
purposes
of
such
application
a reference
to
the
Minister
of
Agriculture
Public
Works
-
shall
be
construed
as
a
reference
to
such
hospital
trustees
or educational
trustees,
as
the
case
may
be.".
-
- Short
title
-
- 2.
This
Act
shall
be
called
the
General
Law
Amendment
Act,
1993.
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