- NO. 59 OF 1996:
NON-PROLIFERATION OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AMENDMENT
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- PRESIDENT'S OFFICE No.
1759.
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1 November 1996
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- NO. 59 OF 1996:
NON-PROLIFERATION OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AMENDMENT ACT,
1996.
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- It is hereby notified that
the President has assented to the following Act which is hereby
published for general information:-
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- GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:
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- Words in italics indicate
insertions in existing enactments.
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ACT
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- To amend the
Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Act, 1993, so as to
make provision for the representation of the Department of Trade and
Industry in the South African Council for Non-Proliferation
of
Weapons of Mass Destruction; and to render punishable any
contravention of, or any failure to comply with, the provisions
of a
certain notice or the conditions of a certain permit; and to make
provision for matters connected therewith.
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- (Afrikaans text
signed by the President.) (Assented to 24 October 1996.)
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BE IT ENACTED by the
Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as
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follows:-
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- Amendment of section 4 of
Act 57 of 1993, as amended by section 1 of Act 50 of 1995
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- 1. Section 4 of the
Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Act,
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1993 (hereinafter referred to
as the principal Act), is hereby amended by the substitution for
paragraph (b) of subsection (2)
of the following paragraph:
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"(b)
an officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs, designated by the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, and an officer of the
Department,
designated by the Minister;".$ -
- Amendment of section
26 of Act 87 of 1993
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- for
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- 2. Section 26 of the
principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution
- paragraph (c) of
subsection (1) of the following paragraph:
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- "(c) contravenes or
fails to comply with the provisions of a notice issued under
section 13(2) or (9), or the conditions
of a permit referred
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to
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in section 13(2), read with
section 13(4), or the provisions of section
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13(3) or 15(1);".
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- Short title
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- 3. This Act shall be
called the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass
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Destruction Amendment Act,
1996.
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