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Agricultural Pests Amendment Act, 1985 (No. 17 of 1985)
GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:
__ Words underlined with solid line indicate insertions in existing enactments.
Act
- to amend the Agricultural Pests Act, 1983, so as to emend the text of section 13.
(Afrikaans text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 12 March 1985.)
BE IT ENACTED by the State President and the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-
Amendment of section 13 of Act 36 of 1983.
1. Section 13 of the Agricultural Pests Act, 1983, is hereby amended-
(a) by the substitution for subparagraph (i) of subsection (1) of the following subparagraph:
"(i) on a first conviction of an offence in terms of paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e), to a fine not exceeding R5 000 or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment;"; and
(b) by the substitution, in the Afrikaans text, for subparagraph (iii) of subsection (1) of the following subparagraph:
"(iii) by skuldigbevinding weens 'n misdryf ingevolge paragraaf (f), (g), (h), (i) of (j), strafbaar met 'n boete van hoogstens R600 of met gevangenisstraf vir 'n tydperk van hoogstens drie maande of met daardie boete sowel as daardie gevangenisstraf. ".
Short title.
2. This Act shall be called the Agricultural Pests Amendment Act, 1985.
Commencement
3 April 1985
