Secret Services Amendment Act 5 of 1993

Secret Services Amendment Act, 1993 (No. 5 of 1993)

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

Act

• to amend the Secret Services Act, 1978, so as to further regulate the appointmentof members of the Secret Services Evaluation Committee; and
• to provide for matters in connection therewith.

(English text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 26 February 1993.)

BE IT ENACTED by the State President and the Parliament of the Republic of South Afnca; as follows:- ·

Amendment of section 3A of Act 56 of 1978, as inserted by section 4 of Act 142 of 1992 

1. Section 3A of the Secret Services Act, 1978 (Act No. 56 of 1978), is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsection:

"(1) There is hereby establisheda committee to be known·as the Secret Services Evaluation Committee consisting of not less than three but not more than five persons appointed by the State President, of whom one shall be designated by him as the chairman, and of whom at least one shall not be a holder of office in the Executive Authority of the Republic and shall be appointed after consultation with the leaders of the opposition parties in Parliament.".

Short title and commencement

2. This Act shall be called the Secret Services Amendment Act, 1993, and shall come into operation on 1 April 1993.