Foreign States Immunities Amendment Act 48 of 1985

Foreign States Immunities Amendment Act, 1985 (No. 48 of 1985)

GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:
__ Words underlined with solid line indicate insertions in existing enactments.

Act

• to amend the Foreign States Immunities Act, 1981, so as to make it clear that the property of foreign states shall not be subject to attachment in order to found jurisdiction; and
• to provide for matters connected therewith.

(English text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 12 April 1985.)

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

Amendment of section 14 of Act 87 of 1981.

1. Section 14 of the Foreign States Immunities Act, 1981, is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of the following paragraph:

"(b) the property of a foreign state shall not be subject to any process-

(i) for its attachment in order to found jurisdiction; 

(ii) for the enforcement of a judgment or an arbitration award; or

(iii) in an action in rem, for its attachment or sale.".

Short title.

2. This Act shall be called the Foreign States Immunities Amendment Act, 1985.

Commencement

24 April 1985