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120 of 1993
The Magistrates’ Courts Amendment Act 120 of 1993 intends:
- to amend the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1944, in order
- to make provision for the establishment and jurisdiction of civil courts for civil divisions and the appointment of senior civil magistrates for the said courts;
- to create a separate court structure for the adjudication of civil cases;
- to further regulate the constitution of the Regional Magistrates Appointments Advisory Board;
- to provide for the establish ment of family courts for the adjudication of divorce actions and the appointment of family magistrates for the said courts;
- to provide that advocates and attorneysmay, in certain circumstances, be appointed as judicial officers;
- to delete or replace certain obsolete expressions;
- to emend the Afrikaans text;
- to replace the short title; and
- to replace the long title;
- to amend
- the Black Administration Act, 1927,
- the Deeds Registries Act, 1937,
- the Interpretation Act, 1957,
- the General Law Amendment Act, 1957,
- the Attorneys Act, 1979,
- the Small Claims Courts Act, 1984,
- the Matrimonial Property Act, 1984,
- the Rules Board for Courts of Law Act, 1985, and
- the Short Process Courts and Mediation in Certain Civil Cases Act, 1991,
- in order to effect certain consequential amendments;
- to amend the Black Administration Act, 1927, Amendment Act, 1929 [repealed in 2010], in order to abolish separate divorce courts for Blacks;
- to amend the Divorce Act, 1979, in order to provide for certain procedures in connection with divorce actions;
- to amend the Mediation in Certain Divorce Matters Act, 1987, in order to empower the Minister of Justice to make the provisions thereof applicable to a divorce action adjudicated in a family court; and
- to provide for matters in connection therewith.
Commencement
7 January 2000, Sections 47 to and including 50 and 53 (Gazette 20781 of 30 December 1999)
