It is hereby notified that the President has assented to the following Act, which is hereby published for general information:

General Explanatory Note:

Words in bold italic indicate omissions from existing enactments.

Words in italic indicate insertions in existing enactments.

To amend the Social Assistance Act, 1992, so as to amend a certain definition; to further regulate the making of grants and financial awards to certain persons and bodies; and to provide for incidental matters.

(English text signed by the President.) (Assented to 25 November 1994.)

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

Amendment of section I of Act 59 of 1992, as amended by section 14 of Act 118 of 1993

1. Section I of the Social Assistance Act, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), is hereby amended by the substitution for the definition of care-dependent child" of the following definition:

" 'care-dependent child' means a child between the ages of one and eighteen years who requires and receives permanent home care due to his or her severe mental or physical disability;".

Amendment of section 2 of Act 59 of 1992, as amended by section 15 of Act 118 of 1993 and section 3 of Act 180 of 1993

2. Section 2 of the principal Act is hereby amended-

(a) by the substitution for the words preceding paragraph (a) of the following words: "2. The Minister may shall, subject to the provisions of this Act and with the concurrence of the Minister of State Expenditure Finance, out of moneys appropriated by Parliament for that purpose, make-"; and

(b) by the substitution for paragraph (g) of the following paragraph: "(g) a care-dependency grant to a parent or foster parent in respect of a care-dependent child.".

Amendment of section 19 of Act 59 of 1992

3. Section 19 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (2) of the following subsection: "(2) The Minister shall not make any regulation under subsection (1), except a regulation referred to in paragraphs (a), (d), (f), (i), (j), (k), (l), (n), (p), (q) and (r) of the said subsection, without the concurrence of the Minister of State Expenditure Finance.".

Short title and commencement

4. This Act shall be called the Social Assistance Amendment Act, 1994, and shall come into operation on the date on which the principal Act comes into operation.