Additional Post Office Appropriation Act 9 of 1998

Additional Post Office Appropriation Act, 1998 (No. 9 of 1998)

Act

• to appropriate additional sums of money for the Universal Service Fund and the Human Resources Fund to be utilised for the purposes prescribed by the Telecommunications Act, 1996, in respect of the financial year ending 31 March 1998.

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:—

Appropriation of additional money for the Universal Service Fund and Human Resources Fund

1. Subject to the provisions of the Post Office Act, 1958 (Act No. 44 of 1958), and the Telecommunications Act, 1996 (Act No. 103 of 1996), there is hereby appropriated, out of the Post Office Fund, in respect of the financial year ending 31 March 1998, as a charge to the Post Office Account, for the requirements of—

(a) the Human Resources Fund, an amount of R5 million to be utilised for the purposes prescribed by section 79 of the Telecommunications Act, 1996, in addition to the amount of R3 million appropriated in the Post Office
Appropriation Act, 1997 (Act No. 2 of 1997); and

(b) the Universal Service Fund, an amount of R10 million to be utilised for the purposes prescribed by section 66 of the Telecommunications Act, 1996, in addition to the amount of R3 million appropriated in the Post Office Appropriation Act, 1997.

Short title

2. This Act shall be called the Additional Post Office Appropriation Act, 1998.

Commencement

31 March 1998