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Amendment of section 24 of Act 110 of 1983.

3. Section 24 of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983, is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsection:

“(1) The State President may appoint as many persons as he may from time to time deem necessary to administer such departments of State of the Republic as the State President may establish, or to perform such other functions as the State President may determine, and he may himself administer such a department of State for general affairs if at any time no person has been appointed under this subsection or section 25 to administer it.”

Substitution of section 26 of Act 110 of 1983.

4. The following section is hereby substituted for section 26 of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983:

“Assignment of Minister’s functions to another Minister, or performance thereof by or on behalf of State President.

26. (1) The State President may assign the administration of any provision in any law which entrusts to a Minister any power, duty or function, to any other Minister―

(a)		either specifically or by way of a general assignment of the administration of any law or of all laws entrusting powers, duties or functions to such first-mentioned Minister; and
(b)		either generally or in so far as such provision, law or laws relate to any population group or matter mentioned in such assignment.

(2) A power, duty or function entrusted or assigned by or under this Act or any other law to a Minister of a department of State for general affairs which is administered by the State President, may be exercised or performed by the State President as if he were the Minister of the department in question, and may be exercised or performed on behalf of the State President by a Minister referred to in section 20 (b) or (c) who has been authorized thereto by the State President.”.

Amendment of section 32 of Act 110 of 1983.

5. Section 32 of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983, is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (2) of the following subsection:

“(2)  (a)

If―

(i)		the State President, by message to a House, has requested that a bill passed by another House and introduced in the House in question or in respect of which notice of a motion for its introduction or consideration has been given in that House, be disposed of by that House before a date mentioned in the message, which may not be a date earlier than 14 days after the date of the message; and
(ii)		that House has not disposed of such bill before the date mentioned in the message,

that House shall be deemed for the purposes of subsection (1) to have rejected the bill, unless the State President by like message determines otherwise within seven days after the date so mentioned.

(b)

A House which has rejected a motion for the introduction or the consideration of a bill shall be deemed for the purposes of subsection (1) to have rejected the bill.”.

Amendment of section 46 of Act 110 of 1983.

6. Section 46 of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983, is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (2) of the following subsection:

“(2)  (a)

A casual vacancy in the seat of a nominated or an indirectly elected member of a House shall, subject to the provisions of paragraph (b), be filled by the nomination or election of a member for the unexpired portion of the term of office of the member in whose stead