Government Gazette

Vol. 405, No. 19882, 26 March 1999

Regulation Gazette, No. 6469

No. R. 31, 1999

PROCLAMATION

by the President of the Republic of South Africa

SPECIAL INVESTIGATING UNITS AND SPECIAL TRIBUNALS ACT, 1996 (ACT No. 74 OF 1996): REFERRAL OF MATTER TO EXISTING SPECIAL INVESTIGATING UNIT AND SPECIAL TRIBUNAL

WHEREAS allegations as contemplated in section 2(2)(c) and (g) of the Special Investigating Units and Special Tribunals Act, 1996 (Act No. 74 of 1996), have been made in respect of the payment by attorneys to persons of compensation from the Road Accident Fund, established by section 2(1) of the Road Accident Fund Act, 1996 (Act No. 56 of 1996), and/or its predecessors in law;

AND WHEREAS I deem it necessary that the said allegations should be investigated and justiciable civil disputes emanating from such investigation should be adjudicated upon;

NOW, THEREFORE, I hereby, under section 2 (1) of the said Act, refer an allegation of a failure by attorneys, acting on behalf of any person with regard to a claim for compensation from the Road Accident Fund, to pay over to such persons the total nett amount received in respect of compensation from the Road Accident Fund after deduction of a reasonable and/or taxed amount in respect of attorney-client costs, for investigation to the Special Investigating Unit and for adjudication of justiciable civil disputes emanating from such investigation to the Special Tribunal established by Proclamation No. R. 24 of 14 March 1997 and determine that, for the purposes of the investigation of that matter, the terms of reference of the Special Investigating Unit are to investigate as contemplated in the said Act, any -

1. unlawful appropriation or expenditure of public money or property; or
2. 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 January 1990 and the date of publication of this Proclamation.

Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Republic of South Africa at Cape Town this Seventeenth day of March One thousand Nine hundred and Ninety-nine.

T. M. MBEKI
Acting President

By Order of the President-in-Cabinet: