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Amendment of section 178 of Constitution, as amended by section 2 of Constitution Second Amendment Act of 1998 and section 16 of Constitution Sixth Amendment Act of 2001

10. Section 178 of the Constitution is hereby amended by the substitution in subsection (1) for paragraph (k) of the following paragraph:

“(k)

when considering matters relating to a specific Division of the High Court of South Africa, the Judge President of that [Court] Division and the Premier of the province concerned, or an alternate designated by each of them.”.

Short title and commencement

11. This Act is called the Constitution Seventeenth Amendment Act of 2012, and takes effect on a date determined by the President by proclamation in the Gazette.