Chapter 6: Provinces
CHAPTER 6
pRoVinceS
Provinces
103.
(1)
The Republic has the following provinces:
(a) � Eastern Cape;
(b) � Free State;
(c) � Gauteng;
(d) � KwaZulu-Natal;
(e) � Limpopo;
(f) � Mpumalanga;
(g) � Northern Cape;
(h) � North West;
(i) Western Cape.
[Sub-s. (1) substituted by s. 3 of the Constitution Eleventh Amendment Act of 2003 and substituted by
s. 1 of the Constitution Twelfth Amendment Act of 2005]
(2) The geographical areas of the respective provinces comprise the sum of the
indicated geographical areas reflected in the various maps referred to in the Notice
listed in Schedule 1A.
[Sub-s. (2) substituted by s. 1 of the Constitution Twelfth Amendment Act of 2005.]
(3) � (a) Whenever the geographical area of a province is re-determined by an
amendment to the Constitution, an Act of Parliament may provide for
measures to regulate, within a reasonable time, the legal, practical and any
other consequences of the re-determination.
(b) � An Act of Parliament envisaged in paragraph (a) may be enacted and
implemented before such amendment to the Constitution takes effect, but any
provincial functions, assets, rights, obligations, duties or liabilities may only be
transferred in terms of that Act after that amendment to the Constitution takes
effect.
[S.103 substituted by s. 1 of the Constitution Twelfth Amendment Act of 2005.]
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