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		committees or a particular joint committee or other matters affecting all three Houses; or
(ii)		the business and proceedings of joint committees or a particular joint committee;”.

Substitution of section 65 of Act 110 of 1983.

9. The following section is hereby substituted for section 65 of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983:

“Powers of the State President, Ministers and their deputies in Houses.

65. (1) The State President, a Minister who is a member of the Cabinet and any deputy to such a Minister has the right to sit and to speak in any House, but may [only vote if he] not vote except, in the case of such a Minister or deputy who is a member of a House, [and only] in the House of which he is a member. (2) A member of a Ministers’ Council who is not a member of any House or of the Cabinet has the right to sit and to speak in the House of which the members are of the same population group as the members of the Ministers’ Council in question, but may not vote therein.”.

Amendment of section 67 of Act 110 of 1983.

10. Section 67 of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983, is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsection:

“(1) A joint sitting of the Houses shall be called by the State President by message to the Houses or, in terms and for the purposes of the joint rules and orders contemplated in section 64, by the Speaker of Parliament.”.

Amendment of section 102 of Act 110 of 1983.

11. (1) Section 102 of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983, is hereby amended―

(a)

by the substitution for paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of the following paragraph:

“(b)

A reference in any law to the Prime Minister which at the commencement of this Act is not in consequence of an assignment under section 20A of the previous Constitution to be construed as a reference to some other Minister, shall be deemed to be a reference to the State President acting under subsection (2) of section 26 of this Act, except in so far as the State President assigns the administration of such law to a Minister [mutatis mutandis under section 26] under subsection (1) of the last-mentioned section.”;

(b)

by the substitution for paragraph (b) of subsection (6) of the following paragraph:

“(b)

Rules and orders approved by the House of Assembly before the commencement of this Act as joint rules and orders of the Houses [and published in the Gazette before such commencement by the Secretary to Parliament], shall after such commencement be deemed to be joint rules and orders approved by each of the Houses as contemplated in section 64, until, and except in so far as, they are replaced by rules and orders which have in fact been so approved: Provided that any rules and orders so [published] approved by the House of Assembly shall lapse on the expiry of a period of two years after the commencement of the first session of the first Parliament constituted under this Act.”;

(c)

by the substitution for subsection (7) of the following subsection:

“(7) The first session of the first Parliament constituted in terms of this Act shall commence within 21 days after the polling day or the last polling day of the