Government Gazette

Vol. 394, No. 18864, 28 April 1998

Regulation Gazette, No. 6167

No. R. 42

PROCLAMATION

by the President of the Republic of South Africa

SPECIAL INVESTIGATING UNITS AND SPECIAL TRIBUNALS ACT, 1996 (ACT No. 74 OF 1996)
AMENDMENT OF PROCLAMATION

Under section 2 (4) of the Special Investigating Units and Special Tribunals Act, 1996 (Act No. 74 of 1996), I hereby amend Proclamation No. R. 24 of 14 March 1997, as amended by Proclamation No. R. 72 of 11 November 1997, by the substitution for paragraph 4 of the following paragraph:

"4. The terms of reference of the Special Investigating Unit are to exercise or perform the powers, duties and functions assigned to or conferred upon a Special investigating Unit by the said Act in respect of the matters in the Schedule, which matters have a bearing on State or public property or public money which belongs to or vests in a State institution of the Government of the Province of the Eastern Cape or which, at any time prior to 27 April 1994, belonged to or vested in any former State or provincial administration which exercised control and administration over any part of the territory which now constitutes the Province of the Eastern Cape, and to investigate as contemplated in the said Act, any—

  1. serious maladministration in connection with the affairs of any such State institution;
  2. improper or unlawful conduct by employees of any such State institution;
  3. unlawful appropriation or expenditure of public money or property;
  4. unlawful, irregular or unapproved acquisitive act, transaction, measure or practice having a bearing upon State property;
  5. intentional or negligent loss of public money or damage to public property;
  6. corruption in connection with the affairs of any such State institution; or
  7. unlawful or improper conduct by any person which has caused or may cause serious harm to the interests of the public or any category thereof,

which has taken place between 26 October 1976 and 14 March 1997 and has been brought to the attention of the Special Investigating Unit on or before 14 March 1997.".

Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Republic of South Africa at Pretoria this Twenty-fourth day of April, One thousand Nine hundred and Ninety-eight.

N. R. MANDELA
President By Order of the President-in-Cabinet:

A. M. OMAR
Minister of the Cabinet