TRANSPORT SECOND GENERAL AMENDMENT ACT

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

No. 1543. 6 October 1995

NO. 82 OF 1995: TRANSPORT SECOND GENERAL AMENDMENT ACT, 1995

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 tyoe in square brackets indicate omissions from existing enactments.

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ACT

To amend the Railway Construction Act, 1985, and the Second Railway Construction Act, 1985, so as to provide for the payment of further moneys for certain expenses incurred; to amend the Maritime Zones Act, 1994, so as to substitute a definition; to empower the Minister to amend Schedule 2 by notice in the Gazette; and to amend the powers of the Minister to make regulations; and to validate certain registering authorities; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

(Afrikaans text signed by the President.) (Assented to 28 September 1995.)

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

Amendment of section 1 of Act 75 of 1985

1. Section 1 of the Railway Construction Act, 1985, is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (2) of the following subsection:

"(2A) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), a further amount of R27 000 may be paid for expenses incurred up to and including 31 March 1990 relating to the acquisition of rolling stock, and the construction and equipping of all sidings, stations, buildings and other appurtenances necessary for or incidental to the proper working of the line of railway contemplated in that subsection.".

Amendment of section 1 of Act 94 of 1985

2. Section 1 of the Second Railway Construction Act, 1985, is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (2) of the following subsection:

"(2A) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), a further amount of R13 million may be paid for expenses incurred up to and including 31 March 1990 relating to the acquisition of rolling stock, and the construction and equipping of all sidings, stations, buildings and other appurtenances necessary for or incidental to the proper working of the line of railway contemplated in that subsection.".

Amendment of section 1 of Act 15 of 1994

3. Section 1 of the Maritime Zones Act, 1994, is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (c) of the definition of "installation" of the following paragraph:

"(c) Any exploration or production vessel used in prospecting for or the mining of any substance.".

Amendment of section 12 of Act 15 of 1994

4. The following section is hereby substituted for section 12 of the Maritime Zones Act, 1994:

"Amendment of Schedules

12. The Minister may by notice in the Gazette amend [Schedule] Schedules 2 and 3.".

Amendment of section 13 of Act 15 of 1994

5. Section 13 of the Maritime Zones Act, 1994, is hereby amended by the deletion of paragraph (b).

Validation of certain registering authorities

6. (1) If a local government body has been dissolved in terms of section 10(3)(f) of the Local Government Transition Act, 1993 (Act No. 209 of 1993), and the rights,' powers and obligations of such local government body have been taken over by a transitional local council, a transitional metropolitan council or a transitional metropolitan substructure, and that local government body was appointed as a registering authority in terms of section 2(1) of the Road Traffic Act, 1989 (Act No. 29 of 1989), or deemed to be so appointed in terms of section 153(2) of that Act, such transitional local council, transitional metropolitan council or transitional metropolitan substructure shall be deemed to have been duly appointed as the registering authority for the area for which, and upon the conditions under which, the local government body concerned had been appointed as registering authority.

(2) Any power, duty or function exercised or performed, before the commencement of this Act, in terms of the Road Traffic Act, 1989, by a transitional council or a transitional substructure which is deemed to have been appointed as a registering authority in terms of subsection (1), shall be deemed to have been validly so exercised or performed.

Short title

7. This Act shall be called the Transport Second General Amendment Act, 1995.