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            <title>Abolition of Restriction on the Jurisdiction of Courts Act (No. 88</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To repeal or amend certain laws so as to abolish certain restrictions on political parties and other organizations and on certain publications, objects, films and public entertainments; to that end to empower the State President to repeal or amend certain laws in force in the Republic or in any area of the Republic, including the self-governing territories; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
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            <title>Admission of Legal Practitioners Amendment Act (No. 33 of 1995)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To amend the Admission of Advocates Act, 1964, the Attorneys Act, 1979, the Admission of Advocates Act, 1964, of the former Transkei, the Attorneys, Notaries and Conveyancers Admission Act, 1934, of the former Transkei, the Admission of Advocates Act, 1964, of the former Bophuthatswana, the Attorneys, Notaries and Conveyancers Act, 1984, of the former Bophuthatswana, the Admission of Advocates Act, 1964, of the former Venda, the Attorneys Act, 1987, of the former Venda, the Admission of Advocates Act, 1964, of the former Ciskei and the Attorneys Act, 1979, of the former Ciskei so as to abolish the requirement that applicants for admission as advocates or attorneys must have passed examinations in the Afrikaans and English languages; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
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            <description><![CDATA[To amend the Attorneys Act, 1979, so as to limit liability of the Attorneys Fidelity Fund; to insert transitional provisions relating to liability of the Attorneys Fidelity Fund for investments; to extend the jurisdiction of the Attorneys Fidelity Fund to practitioners in the areas of the former Republics of Bophuthatswana and Venda; to further regulate the filling of a vacancy on the council of a society; and to empower the Law Society of the Wansvaal to exercise certain powers in respect of practitioners practising in the areas of the former Republics of Bophuthatswana and Venda; to amend certain laws; to make fresh provision with regard to the Rules of the High Court in the areas of the former Republics of Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
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            <title>Child Justice Act (No 75 of 2008)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To establish a criminal justice system for children, who are in conflict with the law and are accused of committing offences, in accordance with the values underpinning the Constitution and the international obligations of the Republic; to provide for the minimum age of criminal capacity of children; to provide a mechanism for dealing with children who lack criminal capacity outside the criminal justice system; to make special provision for securing attendance at court and the release or detention and placement of children; to make provision for the assessment of children; to provide for the holding ofa preliminary inquiry and to incorporate, as a central feature, the possibility of diverting matters away from the formal criminal justice system, in appropriate circumstances; to make provision for child justice courts to hear all trials of children whose matters are not diverted; to extend the sentencing options available in respect of children who have been convicted; to entrench the notion of restorative justice in the criminal justice system in respect of children who are in conflict with the law; and to provide for matters incidental thereto.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[To change the manner of referring to the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, and to laws amending it; to substitute the short titles of laws amending the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
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