State Land Disposal Amendment Act 26 of 1976

State Land Disposal Amendment Act, 1976 (No. 26 of 1976)

• to amend the State Land Disposal Act, 1961, so as:
  • to further regulate the powers of the State President in respect of the leasing of certain State land;
  • to repeal section 2bis;
  • to provide that the Minister may assign certain powers to lease State land to certain councils and bodies; and
• to provide for incidental matters.

(Afrikaans text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 15 March 1916.)

Be it enacted by the State President, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-

Amendment of section 2 of Act 48 f 1961, as amended by section 2 of Act 28 of 1968. 

1. Section 2 of the State Land Disposal Act, 1961 (herein-after referred to as the principal Act), is hereby amended by the addition to subsection (2) of the following proviso: 
"Provided that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply in respect of the lease of the whole or any portion of-

(a) places upon State land which have been reserved by the State President as contemplated in Item-5 of the Second Schedule to the Financial Relations Consolidation and Amendment Act, 1945 (Act No. 38 of 1945), as being places of public resort, of public recreation, or of historical or sCientific interest; and

(b) State land situated in public resorts, places of rest, seaside resorts, holiday centres, holiday camps, caravan parks, tent camps and picnic places referred to in Item 24 of the Second Schedule to the said Act, which cannot lawfully be_ leased in terms of any such ordinance.". 

Repeal of section 2bis of Act 48 of 1961, as inserted by section 18 of Act 66 of 1963.

2. Section 2bis of the principal Act is hereby repealed.

Amendment of section 7 of Act 48 f 1961. 

3. Section 7 of the principal Act. is hereby amended by the  substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsection:

"(1) The Minister may either generally or in regard to specified State land or in a specified case, assign-

(a) any power or duty conferred or imposed upon him by or in terms of this Act, to ·an Administrator of a province or any officer in the service of the State; and

(b) any power conferred upon him in terms of this Act to lease State land, with the approval by resolution of the Senate and the House of Assembly, to any council or body instituted or appointed by or in terms of any law.".

Short title.

4. This Act shall be called tlie State Land Disposal Ameridment Act, 1976.

Commencement

31 March 1976