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Prohibition of the Exhibition of Films on Sundays and Public Holidays Amendment Act 102 of 1992
GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:
[ ] Words in bold type in square brackets indicate omissions from existing enactments.
__ Words underlined with a solid line indicate insertions in existing enactments.
Act
- to amend the Prohibition of the Exhibition of Films on Sundays and Public Holidays Act, 1977, so as
- to define a certain expression; and
- to further regulate the prohibition of the exhibition of films on Sundays; and
- to provide for matters connected therewith.
(English text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 18 June 1992.)
BE IT ENACTED by the State President and the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-
Amendment of section 1 of Act 16 of 1977
1. Section 1 of the Prohibition of the Exhibition of Films on Sundays and Public Holidays Act, 1977, is hereby amended by the insertion before the definition of "Sunday" of the following definition:
"'local authority' means-
(a) any institution or body contemplated in section 84(1)(f) of the Provincial Government Act, 1961 (Act No. 32 of 1961);
(b) any local authority as defined in section 1(1) of the Black Local Authorities Act, 1982 (Act No. 102 of 1982);
(c) a board of management or board referred to in section 1 of the Rural Areas Act (House of Representatives), 1987 (Act No. 9 of 1987);
(d) any local council established under section 2 of the Local Councils Act (House of Assembly), 1987 (Act No. 94 of 1987);
(e) the Local Government Affairs Council established by section 2 of the Local Government Affairs Council Act (House of Assembly), 1989 (Act No. 84 of 1989);
(f) any joint or single local authority established under section 15(a) of the Interim Measures for Local Government Act, 1991 (Act No. 128 of 1991);
(g) any person, institution or body that, by virtue of the provisions of any law, exercises the powers and performs the duties which, in the opinion of the Minister of Justice, correspond to the powers and duties ordinarily exercised or performed by a local authority, and which the Minister of Justice, by notice in the Gazette, declares to be a local authority for the purposes of this Act;".
Amendment of section 2 of Act 16 of 1977
2. Section 2 of the Prohibition of the Exhibition of Films on Sundays and Public Holidays Act, 1977, is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsection:
"(1) No person shall exhibit any film on any Sunday in or at any place to which admission is obtained for any consideration, direct or indirect, or by virtue of membership of any association of persons or by virtue of any contribution towards any fund, unless the [Minister of Justice or any officer of the Department of Justice acting under his] local authority of the area concerned where that place is situated, has consented thereto on such conditions as it may determine.".
Short title
3. This Act shall be called the Prohibition of the Exhibition of Films on Sundays and Public Holidays Amendment Act, 1992.
Commencement
3 July 1992
