Fund-raising Amendment Act 19 of 1981

Fund-raising Amendment Act, 1981 (No. 19 of 1981)

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

Act

• to amend the Fund-raising Act, 1978, so as to extend the objects of the board of the South African Defence Force Fund to provide facilities to former members also; and
• to provide for matters connected therewith.

(Afrikaans text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 16 February 1981.)

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

Amendment of section 18 of Act 107 of 1978, as amended by section 4 of Act 41 of 1980.

1. Section 18 of the Fund-raising Act, 1978, is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (b) of the following paragraph: 

"(b) the board of the South African Defence Force Fund shall be, with due regard to the financial position of that Fund and the requirements of each case, to render such aid as the board may deem fair and reasonable to members and former members of the South African Defence Force and of auxiliary seivices established and designated in accordance with section 80 (1) of the Defence Act, 1957 (Act No. 44 of  1957), and their dependants who suffer financial hardship or financial distress arising, directly or indirectly, out of any service or duties contemplated in section 3 (2) of the Defence Act, 1957, performed by such members, and to provide facilities to or for such members and former members who perform or performed such service or duties;". 

Short title and commencement.

2. This Act shall be called the Fund-raising Amendment Act, 1981, and shall be deemed to have come into optration on 1 September 1979.