Land Affairs General Amendment Act 11 of 2000

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11 of 2000

The Land Affairs General Amendment Act 11 of 2000 aims:

  • to amend the Deeds Registries Act, 1937, so as to provide for the deeds registries regulations board to make regulations regarding the manner in which the payment of the fees of office maybe enforced;
  • to amend the KwaZulu Land Affairs Act, 1992, so as to validate certain acts purporting to have been performed in terms of that Act;
  • to amend the Provision of Land and Assistance Act, 1993, so as to provide for the amendment, withdrawal and lapsing of conditions;
  • to amend the Restitution of Land and Rights Act, 1994, so as:
    • to exclude issues concerning the definition of “occupier” from section 22 of the Act; and
    • to provide for the secondment of judges and appointment of acting judges to the Land Claims Court;
  • to amend the Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Act, 1996, so as:
    • to extend the date upon which the right contemplated in the proviso to section 16(1) lapses;
    • to authorise the Land Claims Court to issue an order wherein proceedings before it, it is averred that the person sought to be evicted is a Iabour tenant, but it is subsequently not proved that suc ha person is a Iabour tenant; and
    • to exempt awards of land certified by the Director-General from laws regulating the subdivision of land;
  • to amend the Extension of Security of Tenure Act, 1997, so as:
    • to require the submission of areport to the Court for the purposes of section 9(2)(c);
    • to extend the period for the review by the Land Claims Court of eviction orders by magistrates’ courts pending the review thereof by the Land Claims Court; and
    • to recognise the jurisdiction of the magistrate’s court for purposes of section 20(2) of the said Act;
  • to amend the Transformation of Certain Rural Areas Act, 1998, so as to insert a procedure whereby the registrar of deeds may endorse a title deed in the event of land vesting in a municipality in terms of section 2 of the said Act; and
  • to provide for matters connected therewith.

Commencement

24 March 2000, except Section 11(a) on 1 January 2000

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