Government Gazette

Vol. 402, No. 19579, 4 December 1998

Regulation Gazette, No. 6375

No. R. 123

PROCLAMATION

by the President of the Republic of South Africa

NATIONAL PROSECUTING AUTHORITY ACT, 1998

CATEGORIES OF OF FENCES IN RESPECT OF THE
INVESTIGATING DIRECTORATE: SERIOUS ECONOMIC OFFENCES

WHEREAS the Investigation of Serious Economic Offences Act, 1991 (Act No. 117 of 1991), whereby the Office for Serious Economic Offences was established and which provided that such Office may investigate any offence which in the opinion of the Director: Office of Serious Economic Offences is a serious and complicated economic offence, was repealed by the National Prosecuting Authority Act, 1998 (Act No. 32 of 1998) (hereinafter referred to as "the Act");

AND WHEREAS section 43(7)(a) of the Act provides that the aforementioned Office shall become the Investigating Directorate: Serious Economic Offences (hereinafter referred to as "the Investigating Directorate") which shall be deemed to have been established under section 7 of the Act;

NOW, THEREFORE, I hereby, under section 43(7)(c) of the Act, and on the request of the National Director of Public Prosecutions, further specify me categories of offences in the Schedule, in respect of which the Investigating Directorate must exercise its functions.

Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Republic of South Africa at Pretoria this Fourth day of December, 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

SCHEDULE

1. Any offence of -
   1. fraud;
   2. theft;
   3. forgery and uttering; or
   4. corruption in terms of the Corruption Act, 1992 (Act No. 94 of 1992); or
2. any other -
   1. economic common law offence; or
   2. economic offence in contravention of any statutory provision, which involves patrimonial prejudice or potential patrimonial prejudice to the State, any body corporate, trust, institution or person,

which is of a serious and complicated nature.