Under section 7(2) of the Judicial Matters Amendment Act, 2014 (Act No.14   of 2014), I hereby fix 1  December 2017 as the date on which sections 2, 3   and 6 of said the Act shall come into operation.

Given under my Hand and the Seal of the  Republic of  South Africa at Pretoria this twenty second day of November Two thousand
and seventeen.