OFFICE
OF THE PRESIDENT
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- No. 2094 7 December 1994
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- NO. 53 OF 1994:
REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES OF EXECUTIVE DEPUTY PRESIDENTS,
MINISTERS AND DEPUTY MINISTERS ACT, 1994.
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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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ACT
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- To provide for the payment
of remuneration and allowances to Executive Deputy Presidents,
Ministers and Deputy Ministers; and
for matters connected there-
with.
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- (English text signed
by the President.) (Assented to 23 November 1994.)
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BE IT ENACTED
by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-
Definitions
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1. In this Act, unless
the context indicates otherwise-
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- (i) "Deputy
Minister" means a Deputy Minister contemplated in section
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94 of the Constitution; (i)
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- (ii) "Executive
Deputy President" means an Executive Deputy President
contemplated in section 84 of the Constitution;
(iii)
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- (iii) "Minister"
means a Minister contemplated in section 88 of the
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Constitution. (ii)
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Remuneration and allowances of Executive Deputy
Presidents, Ministers and
Deputy Ministers
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- 2. (1) Executive Deputy
Presidents, Ministers and Deputy Ministers shall be paid such
remuneration and allowances as may be determined
by the President,
having regard to the recommendations of the Commission on
Remuneration of Representatives mentioned in section
207 of the
Constitution.
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- (2) (a) Paragraph (d) of
section 8(1) of the Income Tax Act, 1962 (Act No.
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58 of 1962), shall apply to
such portion of the remuneration of an Executive Deputy President, a
Minister or a Deputy Minister
as may at any time be determined by
the President, as if that portion were an allowance contemplated in
that paragraph.
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- (b) Different portions
may be determined under paragraph (a) in respect of different
amounts of remuneration.
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Date and
manner of payment of remuneration and allowances
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- 3. There shall be paid to
every Executive Deputy President, Minister and Deputy Minister the
remuneration and allowances to which
such person is entitled in
terms of this Act in monthly instalments, the first month to be
reckoned-
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- (a) in the case of an
Executive Deputy President, from the date on which he or she
assumes office as contemplated in section
84(6) of the
Constitution;
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- (b) in the case of a
Minister and of a Deputy Minister, from the date
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on which he or she assumes
office as Minister or Deputy Minister, as the case may be, as
contemplated in sections 88(7) and
94(3) of the Constitution,
respectively.
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- Charge to National
Revenue Fund
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- 4. The amount payable in
respect of remuneration and allowances in terms of this Act shall-
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- (a) in the case of an
Executive Deputy President be charged annually
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to the National Revenue Fund,
and the provisions of this section shall be deemed to be an
appropriation of every such amount;
and
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- (b) in the case of a
Minister or Deputy Minister be paid from monies appropriated by
Parliament for that purpose.
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Savings
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- 5. Any money paid to any
Executive Deputy President, Minister or Deputy Minister after 27
April 1994, but before any determination
under this Act, and
purporting to have been remuneration or allowances as contemplated
in section 88(10) of the Constitution,
shall be deemed to have been
determined as such under this Act.
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Short
title and commencement
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- 6. This Act shall be
called the Remuneration and Allowances of Executive
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Deputy Presidents, Ministers
and Deputy Ministers Act, 1994.
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