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Act No. 110, 1983

Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983

(5) Any reference in a provision of this Act mentioned in sub-section (3) of this section, or in the definition in this Act of an expression used in any such provision, to any other provision of this Act not mentioned in that subsection or to any other law shall be construed as a reference to such other provision or other law as it exists from time to time after any amendment or replacement thereof, and the provisions of subsections (3) and (4) of this section shall not be construed as applying to any amendment or replacement of such other provision or other law.

Definitions.

100. (1) In this Act, unless the context indicates otherwise―

(i)

“Chief Justice” means the Chief Justice of South Africa; (vii)

(ii)

“Coloured person” means a person classified as a member of the Cape Coloured, Malay or Griqua group or the group Other Coloureds in terms of the Population Registration Act, 1950; (x)

(iii)

“department of State” means a department of State established under section 24; (xii)

(iv)

“general affairs” means matters referred to in section 15; (i)

(v)

“general law” means any law dealing with general affairs; (ii)

(vi)

“House” means a House of Parliament mentioned in section 37 (1) and, in relation to a Ministers’ Council, the House whose members are of the same population group as the members of the Ministers’ Council; (viii)

(vii)

“Indian” means a person classified as a member of the Indian group in terms of the Population Registration Act, 1950; (ix)

(viii)

“own affairs” means matters referred to in section 14, and in relation to―

(a)

a population group, matters which are own affairs in relation to that population group as contemplated in that section;

(b)

a House or a Ministers’ Council, matters which are own affairs of the relevant population group;

(c)

a department of State, any department of State established for the administration of own affairs of the relevant population group;

(d)

a Minister, any Minister appointed to administer a department of State for own affairs; (vi)

(ix)

“population group” means the White persons, the Coloured persons or the Indians, and in relation to―

(a)

a House, the population group of which the members of the House in question are members;

(b)

a Ministers’ Council, the population group of which the members of the Ministers’ Council in question are members;

(c)

own affairs, the population group whose own affairs are in issue; (iii)

(x)

“previous Constitution” means the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1961, and, in so far as it is not repealed by section 101, the Provincial Government Act, 1961; (xiii)

(xi)

“Republic” means the Republic of South Africa; (xi)

(xii)

“the Coloured persons”, “the Indians” or “the White persons” includes persons who would be classified as Coloured persons, Indians or White persons, respectively, in terms of the Population Registration Act, 1950, had the provisions of that Act applied to them; (v)

(xiii)

“White person” means a person classified as a White person in terms of the Population Registration Act, 1950. (iv)

(2) In this Act and in any other law, except where it is inconsistent with the context or clearly inappropriate, any reference to a resolution or the approval of, or any other act of or with reference to, Parliament (except any act constituting a law of Parliament), or to a member or a committee or the Tables of Parliament, or to any other matter in relation to Parliament (except