Government Gazette

Vol. 436, No. 22789, 2 November 2001

Regulation Gazette, No. 7194

No. R. 52, 2001

PROCLAMATION

by the President of the Republic of South Africa

SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES OF THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT, MINISTERS AND DEPUTY MINISTERS: 

AMENDMENT OF PROCLAMATION No. R. 58, 2000, PUBLISHED IN GOVERNMENT GAZETTE No. 21604 OF 28 SEPTEMBER 2000

By virtue of the powers vested in me by section 4 (1) of the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers Act, 1998 (Act No. 20 of 1998), I hereby amend Proclamation No. R. 58, 2000, with effect from 28 September 2000-

1. by the substitution for paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the following paragraphs, respectively:

1. In terms of section 4 (1) of the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers Act, 1998 (Act No. 20 of 1998) ("the Remuneration Act'), I hereby determine that the annual salaries and allowances of the Deputy President, Ministers and Deputy Ministers shall be as specified in Column 2, 3 or 4 of Schedule 1 with effect from 1 April 2000.
2. Column 4 of Schedule 1 (Notch 3) applies to a re-elected office bearer who at any time has occupied his or her current office, or an office in the same or a higher grade according to Schedule 2, for a period of at least 24 months in total, whether continuous or not, and whether before or after 2 June 1999.
3. Column 3 of Schedule 1 (Notch 2) applies to all re-elected office bearers other than those referred to in paragraph 2. When a re-elected office bearer to whom Column 3 of Schedule 1 applies has held his or her current office, or an office in the same or a higher grade according to Schedule 2, for a period of 24 months in total, whether continuous or not, Column 4 of Schedule 1 (Notch 3) becomes applicable to that office bearer.
4. Column 2 of Schedule 1 (Notch 1) applies to all office bearers mentioned in Column 1 of Schedule 1 who are not re-elected office bearers.

4A. For the purposes of calculating the period of 24 months referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3, a re-elected office bearer who-

1. was a member of Parliament or a Provincial Legislature on 1 June 1999; and
2. pursuant to the elections of 2 June 1999, was designated by the Electoral Commission as a member of the National Assembly or a Provincial Legislature, or appointed as a permanent delegate to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) in terms of section 61 (2) (b) of the Constitution, is regarded to have continued to occupy the position occupied by him or her on 1 June 1999 until so designated or appointed.

4B. In this Proclamation-

"member of Parliament' means a member of the National Assembly or a permanent delegate to the National Council of Provinces; and

"re-elected office bearer" means an office bearer mentioned in Column 1 of Schedule 1-

1. who at any time before 2 June 1999 occupied an office mentioned in Schedule 2; and
2. whose service in any one or more of those offices has not been interrupted at any time for a continuous period of more than 24 months."; and

2. by the addition of Schedule 2, the existing Schedule becoming Schedule 1.

Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Republic of South Africa at Cape Town this Twenty-fourth day of October, Two Thousand and One.

T M. MBEKI
President

By Order of the President-in-Cabinet:

G. J. FRASER-MOLEKETI
Minister of the Cabinet