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Secret Services Act (previous short title: Secret Services Account Act), 1978 (No. 56 of 1978)
Act
to provide for the establishment of an account for secret services and for matters connected therewith.
(Afrikaans text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 26 April 1978.)
Be it enacted by the State President, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-
Establishment of Secret Services Account.
1. There is hereby established an account to be known as the Secret Services Account (hereinafter referred to as the account) which shall be credited with the moneys appropriated by Parliament for the account.
Administration of, and utilization of moneys in, account.
2. (1) The Secretary to the Treasury shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be responsible for the administration of the account: Provided that the accounting officer of a Department of State to which any moneys have been made available in terms of subsection (3), shall be accountable for the moneys so made available.
(2) (a) The Minister of Finance may at the request of the Minister concerned transfer so much money as may be agreed upon between them from ·the account to the Foreign Affairs Special Account established by section 1 of the Foreign Affairs Special Account Act, 1967 (Act No. 38 of 1967), the Security Services Special Account established by section 1 of the Security Services Special Account Act, 1969 (Act No. 81 of 1969), or the Special Defence Account established by section 1 of the Defence Special Account Act, 1974 (Act No. 6 of 1974).
(b) Any moneys so transferred shall be deemed to have been appropriated by Parliament for the account in question.
(3) The Minister of Finance may, at the request of any other Minister, and in such manner and subject to such conditions as he may after consultation with such other Minister determine, make available to a Department of State for which such other Minister is responsible, moneys in the account for utilization for services of a secret nature determined from time to time by the Minister of Finance and such other Minister as being in the national interest, and for expenses incidental to such services.
Audit.
3. (1) The account shall be audited by the Auditor-General.
(2) Subject to the provisions of any law the utilization of moneys transferred from the account to a Department of State in terms of section 2 (3), and the accounts maintained in respect of moneys so transferred, shall be audited by the Auditor-General to the extent determined by the Minister of Finance after consultation with the other Minister concerned and the Auditor-General, having regard to the special nature of the transactions in question.
Short title and commencement.
4. This Act shall be called the Secret Services Account Act, 1978, and shall come into operation on 1 April 1978.
Commencement
1 April 1978
