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            <title>Usury Amendment Bill (B 1-2003)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To amend the Usury Act, 1968, so as to provide for persons other than public service officials to be appointed to inspect the activities of a money lender, credit grantor or lessor; and to provide for matters connected therewith .
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            <title>Portfolio Committee Amendments to Judicial Matters Amendment Bill</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[That the following be a new Clause:
Amendment of section 9 of Act 32 of 1944, as substituted by section 2 of Act 8 of 1967 and amended by section 4 of Act 53 of 1970, section 8 of Act 102 of 1972, section 11 of Act 29 of 1974, section 24 of Act 94 of 1974, section 1 of Act 28 of 1981, section 2 of Act 34 of 1986, section 17 of Act 90 of 1993, section 3 of Act 104 of 1996, section 3 of Act 66 of 1998, section 1 of Act 62 of 2000 and section 1 of Act 28 of 2003
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            <title>Judicial Matters Amendment Bill (B 2B-2003)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To amend-
• the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1944, so as to provide for the disposal of part heard cases by permanently appointed magistrates who vacate the office of magistrate;
• the Administration of Estates Act, 1965, so as to amend the definition of "Master"; and to provide that the Chief Master is subject to the control, direction and supervision of the Minister;
• the Companies Act, 1973, so as to effect a technical correction;
• the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977, so as to effect a technical correction;
• the Attorneys Act, 1979, so as to allow a council to exempt an attorney from the attendance of a legal practice management course in certain
circumstances;
• the Right of Appearance in Courts Act, 1995, so as to provide that an attorney that has been granted the right to appear in a High Court may
do so in any court in the Republic;
• the Special Investigating Units and Special Tribunals Act, 1996, so as to provide for the delegation by the head of a Special Investigating Unit of his or her powers and functions in certain circumstances;
• the Maintenance Act, 1998, so as to further regulate the appointment or designation of officers in the Department as maintenance investigators;
• the Debt Collectors Act, 1998, so as to amend the definition of "debt collector"; to correct an erroneous reference; to provide anew for the
keeping of registers by the Debt Collectors Council; to provide for the cancellation of the registration of a debt collector; and to further regulate
the provisions relating to trust accounts of debt collectors;
• the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act, 2000, so as to make provision for the publishing of a code of good administrative conduct by
notice in the Gazette; and to extend the period of time within which the code of good administrative conduct must be made;
• the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, 2000, so as to extend the application of the Act expressly to include
intersexed persons within the definition of sex;
• the Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Act, 2002, so as to clarify the provision regarding the surrender of
a person to the International Criminal Court; and
• the Judicial Matters Second Amendment Act, 2003, so as to repeal a redundant provision;
and to provide for matters connected therewith.
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            <title>Judicial Matters Amendment Bill (B 2-2003)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To amend the Insolvency Act, 1936, so as to insert a definition of Minister; to enable the Cabinet member responsible for the administration of justice to determine policy for, and further regulate, the appointment of curatores bonis, trustees, provisional trustees and co-trustees by the Masters of the High Courts; to amend the Administration of Estates Act, 1965, so as to provide for the appointment of a Chief Master of the High Courts; to amend the Companies Act, 1973, so as to enable the Cabinet member responsible for the administration of justice to determine policy for, and further regulate, the appointment of liquidators, provisional liquidators, co-liquidators and provisional judicial managers by the Masters of the High Courts; to amend the Close Corporations Act, 1984, so as to enable the Cabinet member responsible for the administration of justice to determine policy for, and further regulate, the appointment of liquidators by the Masters of the High Courts; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
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            <title>Special Pensions Amendment Bill (B 3-2003)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To amend the Special Pensions Act, 1996, in order to provide that a right to a pension in terms of that Act ceases when a right to a pension in terms of the Government Employees Pension Law, 1996, is recognised; and to make it clear that that provision does not affect a dependant's right to receive a pension in his or her own right in terms of section 1 of the Special Pensions Act, 1996; and to provide formatters connected therewith.
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            <title>Portfolio committee amendments to Government employees pension law</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[CLAUSE 1
1. On page 2, from line 9, to omit subparagraph (i).
2. On page 2, from line 23, to omit subparagraph (i).
3. On page 3, from line 5, to omit subparagraph (i).]]></description>
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            <title>Government Employees Pension Law Amendment Bill (B 4-2003)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To amend the Government Employees Pension Law, 1996, so as to provide for the recognition of service rendered in a non-statutory military force or service by a member of the Fund as pensionable service; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
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            <title>Government employees pension law amendment bill (B 4B-2003)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To amend the Government Employees Pension Law, 1996, so as to provide for the recognition of service rendered in a non-statutory military force or service by a member of the Fund as pensionable service; and to provide for matters connected therewith
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