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25 May 2012
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Select Committee Amendments to Reform of Customary Law of Succession and Regulation of Related Matters Bill [B10C- 2008] - 154 KB
 

1. On page 2, from line 8, to omit the definition of ‘‘descendant’’ and to substitute:
‘‘descendant’’ means a person who is a descendant in terms of the Intestate Succession Act, and includes—
(a) a person who is not a descendant in terms of the Intestate Succession Act, but who, during the lifetime of the deceased person, was accepted by the deceased person in accordance with customary law as his or her own child; and
(b) a woman referred to in section 2(2)(b) or (c).’’.

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