Post Office Amendment Act 171 of 1993

Post Office Amendment Act, 1993 (No. 171 of 1993)

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

Act

• to amend the Post Office Act, 1958, so as to provide for the defrayment of expenditure for a fmancial year until such time as provision has been made for such requirements in a Post Office Appropriation Act for that fmancial year; and
• to provide for matters connected therewith.

(English text signed by the Acting State President.)
(Assented to 8 December 1993.)

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

Amendment of section 12G of Act 44 of 1958, as inserted by section 5 of Act 113 of 1976

1. Section 12G of the Post Office Act, 1958, is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of the following paragraph:

"(b) to incur from the beginning of the financial year followinf the financial year to which it relates and until a Post Office Appropriation Act relating to the new financial year comes into operation, expenditure in respect of the last-mentioned financial year for purposes for which amounts were appropriated in a Post Office Appropriation Act for the preceding financial year: Provided that until such time as provision has been made in a Post Office Appropriation Act for such requirements during a financial year, such money shall be deemed to have been appropriated by an Act for such requirements, subject to the following limitations: Money deemed to have been so appropriated shall not amount-

(i) in respect of the first four months of the relevant financial year, to more than 45 per cent of;

(ii) in respect of each of the following months, to more than 10 per cent of; and

(iii) in total, to more than, the amount voted by Parliament by a Post Office Appropriation Act in respect of the immediately preceding financial year.".

Short title and commencement

2. This Act shall be called the Post Office Amendment Act, 1993, and shall come into operation on a date fixed by the State President by proclamation in the Gazette.

Commencement

1 February 1994 (Gazette 15450 of 28 January 1994)