Government Gazette

Vol. 437, No. 22804, 9 November 2001

Regulation Gazette, No. 7197

No. R. 60, 2001

PROCLAMATION

by the President of the Republic of South Africa

SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES OF THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT, MINISTERS AND DEPUTY MINISTERS (NATIONAL EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY)

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 2001.
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 to 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.
5. 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.

6. In this Proclamation-

1. "member of Parliament" means a member of the National Assembly or a permanent delegate to the National Council of Provinces; and
2. "re-elected office bearer" means an office bearer mentioned in Column 1 of Schedule 1-

1. who at anytime 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.

7. In terms of section 4 (3) of the Remuneration Act, I determine the amount of R40 000 per annum as that portion of the remuneration of the Deputy President or a Minister or Deputy Minister to which section 8 (1) (d) of the Income Tax Act, 1962 (Act No. 58 of 1962), applies.
8. Proclamation No. R. 58 of 2000, published in the Government Gazette of 28 September 2000, and Proclamation No. R. 52 of 2001, published in the Government Gazette of 2 November 2001 are repealed.

Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Republic of South Africa at Cape Town this sixth day of November Two thousand and One.

T M. MBEKI
President

By Order of the President-in-Cabinet:

G. J. FRASER-MOLEKETI
Minister of the Cabinet.

SCHEDULE I

GRADING STRUCTURE, REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES OF THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT, MINISTERS AND DEPUTY MINISTERS

*Includes the amount of R40 000 per annum determined in this Proclamation as the amount to which section 8 (1) (d) of the Income Tax Act, 1962, applies.

SCHEDULE 2