Small Claims Courts Amendment Act 14 of 1990

Small Claims Courts Amendment Act, 1990 (No. 14 of 1990)

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

Act

• to amend the Small Claims Courts Act, 1984, so as
• to authorize the Minister of Justice to alter the area for which a court for the adjudication of claims in terms of that Act has been established; and
• to authorize the Minister to amend or withdraw any notice issued in terms of section 2 of the Act; and
• to provide for matters connected therewith.

(English text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 9 March 1990.)

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

Amendment of section 2 of Act 61 of 1984, as substituted by section 1 of Act 92 of 1986

1. Section 2 of the Small Claims Courts Act, 1984, is hereby amended by the deletion of the word "and" at the end of paragraph (aA) of subsection (1) and the addition to subsection (1) of the following paragraphs:

"(c) alter the area for which such a court has been established by including therein or excising therefrom any district or districts or part thereof;

(d) abolish a court established in terms of this section; and

(c) amend or withdraw any notice issued in terms of this section.".

Short title

2. This Act shall be called the Small Claims Courts Amendment Act, 1990.

Commencement

2 July 1990 (Gazette 12608 of 13 July 1990)