Agricultural Debt Management Amendment Act 49 of 2002

Agricultural Debt Management Amendment Act, 2002 (No. 49 of 2002)

GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:
__ Words underlined with a solid line indicate insertions in existing enactments.

(English text signed by the President.)
(Assented to 30 December 2002.

Act

• to amend the Agricultural Debt Management Act, 2001, so as to make provision for the preparation, execution and attestation of documents for registration or filing at a deeds registry by an officer of the department; and
• to provide for matters connected therewith.

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

Amendment of section 9 of Act 45 of 2001

1. Section 9 of the Agricultural Debt Management Act, 2001, is hereby amended-

(a) by the substitution for the heading of the following heading:

"Registration and filing of documents and exemptions"; and

(b) by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsection:

"(1) Despite the provisions of any other Act, a mortgage bond, aereement, consent, authorisation or other document tendered for the purposes of this Act at any deeds registry for registration or filing, may be prepared,. executed and attested by an officer of the department.".

Short title

2. This Act is called the .4gricultural Debt Management Amendment Act. 2002

Commencement

22 January 2003