Second Supreme Court Amendment Act 86 of 1977

Second Supreme Court Amendment Act, 1977 (No. 86 of 1977)

Act

• to amend the Supreme Court Act, 1959 [repealed in 2013], so as to provide for appeals to the appellate division of the Supreme Court of South Africa from a supreme court or a high court of a state to which independence has been granted by law; and
• to provide for matters connected therewith. 

(Afrikaans text signed by the State President. )
(Assented to 17 June 1977.)

Be it enacted by the State President, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-

Amendment of section 21 of Act 59 of 1959.

1. Section 21 of the Supreme Court Act, 1959, is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (1) of the following subsection: 

"(lA) The appellate division shall have the same jurisdiction to hear and determine an appeal from any decision of a supreme court or a high court of a state to which independence has been granted by law, as it has in respect of any decision of the court of a provincial or local division, and any provision of this Act or any other law or rule of court applicable in connection with any appeal from a decision of any court of any provincial or local division shall mutatis mutandis apply with reference to any appeal from a decision of a supreme court or a high court of such a state.''.

Repeal of Act 62 of 1976.

2. The Appeals from the Supreme Court of Transkei Act, 1976, is hereby repealed.

Short title.

3. This Act shall be called the Second Supreme Court Amendment Act, 1977.

Commencement

29 June 1977