Protection of Businesses Amendment Act 87 of 1987

The Protection of Businesses Amendment Act 87 of 1987 intends:

• to amend the Protection of Businesses Act, 1978, so as
  • to extend the prohibition of the enforcement of foreign judgments, orders, directions, arbitration awards and letters of requests to interrogatories, commissions rogatoire and other requests;
  • to extend the prohibition of the furnishing of any information relating to any business carried on in or outside the Republic;
  • to extend the said prohibitions by including therein a reference to any act or transaction which is connected with the mining of any matter or material;
  • to prohibit the recognition or enforcement of certain foreign judgments, arbitration awards and related orders and directions, relating to any liability arising out of the bodily injury or death of any person resulting directly or indirectly from the consumption or use of, or the exposure to, any natural resource of the Republic, unless the same liability would have arisen under the law of the Republic;
  • to lay down what conduct on the part of a person against whom a foreign judgment was given shall for the purposes of the enforcement or recognition of that judgment in the Republic, not be regarded as a submission to the jurisdiction of the foreign court or as the conferment upon such court of jurisdiction in respect of such person; and
• to provide that a foreign judgment in relation to certain acts or transactions shall in certain circumstances be a defence to an action brought in a court in the Republic; and
• to provide for matters connected therewith.

Commencement

16 October 1987