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18 of 2015
The Criminal Matters Amendment Act 18 of 2015 aims:
- to amend the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977, so as:
- to regulate bail in respect of essential infrastructure-related offences;
- to amend the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1997, so as:
- to regulate the imposition of discretionary minimum sentences for essential infrastructure-related offences;
- to create a new offence relating to essential infrastructure;
- to amend the Prevention of Organised Crime Act, 1998, so as:
- to insert a new offence in Schedule 1 to the Act; and
- to provide for matters connected therewith.
Commencement
1 June 2016 (Government Gazette 40010, 24 May 2016)