Black Labour (Transfer of Functions) Act 88 of 1980

Black Labour (Transfer of Functions) Act, 1980 (No. 88 of 1980)

Act

• to provide for the devolution upon officers of the Department of Manpower Utilization and certain other persons of certain functions in terms of the Black Labour Act, 1964, and certain regulations.

(English text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 1 July 1980.)

BE IT ENACTED by the State President, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-

Devolution of certain functions.

1. (1) The State President may by proclamation in the Gazette declare that as from a date specified therein any function relating  to the employment or the placing in employment of Blacks, assigned by or in terms of the Black Labour Act, 1964 (Act No. 67 of 1964), or the Black Labour Regulations, 1965, published by Government Notice No. R1892 of 3 December 1965, to any officer and specified in the said proclamation, shall devolve upon an officer or a category of officers of the Department of Manpower Utilization, or upon any other person irrespective of whether he is an officer as defined in section 1 of the Public Service Act, 1957 (Act No. 54 of 1957), similarly specified.

(2) The State President may in like manner repeal or from time to time amend any proclamation issued under subsection (1).

Short title.

2. This Act shall be called the Black Labour (Transfer of Functions) Act, 1980.

Commencement

1 August 1980