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20 of 1997
The repealed Electoral Amendment Act 20 of 1997 intended:
- to amend the Electoral Act, 1993 [repealed in 1998], so as
- to delete, insert or amend certain definitions;
- to repeal obsolete provisions with regard to the erstwhile Transitional Executive Council and temporary voters’ cards;
- to make a new arrangement as regards the entitlement of persons to vote;
- to make provision for one national common voters’ roll at elections for the National Assembly and the legislatures of the provinces;
- to re-regulate the registration of political parties, the proclamation of elections and the submission of Iists of candidates;
- to amend the provisions regarding voting stations and counting stations and repeal those regarding foreign voting stations;
- to re-deterrnine the provisions regarding places of voting, the manner of voting and special voting;
- in section 44 to dispense with the provisions requiring elections for the National Assembly and those for the legislatures of the provinces to be held and dealt with together;
- to repeal the provisions relating to the determination of the result of an election for the legislature of a province and to the number of seats therein to which registered political parties are entitled following the conclusion of an election in which they participated;
- to repeal the provisions relating to (1) the designation of the representatives of registered political parties in the respective legislatures following the conclusion of an election (2) the supplementation of lists of candidates (3) the review of lists of candidates by those registered parties and (4) the filling of vacancies in a legislature;
- to make new provision for the destruction of election material after the conclusion of an election and for the institution of proceedings on account of the contravention of the Electoral Code of Conduct;
- to repeal section 74 (relating to the State Electoral Fund) and section 75A (containing obsolete special provisions in relation to the Inkatha Freedom Party);
- to restrict or abolish the power of the responsible Minister to make regulations regarding certain topics; and
- to make provision for matters connected therewith.
Commencement
Repeals
