No. 2456
Act No. 25, 2000
Government Gazette 22 December 2000
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TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES ACT, 2000
(i) the method by which the number of persons comprising a
traditional community may be determined; and
(j) generally all other matters which are by this Act required or
permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or expedient to
be prescribed in order to achieve the purposes of this Act.
Repeal of laws and savings
20. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Traditional Authorities Act, 1995
(Act No. 17 of 1995), and the Traditional Authorities Amendment Act, 1997
(Act No. 8 of. 1997), are hereby repealed.
(2) A traditional authority which was established under any law
repealed by subsection (1) and which existed immediately before the
commencement of this Act shall from such commencement continue to
function as such and the provisions of this Act shall apply to such traditional
authority as if it were a traditional authority established under this Act, and
any person who immediately before such commencement was a member or
office-bearer of such traditional authority by virtue of his or her designation
and recognition or appointment under any such repealed law (a) as a chief or supreme traditional leader shall from such
commencement be a chief or, in. the case of the supreme traditional
leader, be a head of a traditional community as if he or she were
designated and recognized under this Act; and
(b) as a senior traditional councillor, traditional councillor or secretary
shall from such commencement respectively be a senior traditional
councillor, traditional councillor or secretary as if he or she were
appointed or elected under this Act.
(3) Anything done under a provision of a law repealed by subsection (1)
shall, in so far as it is not inconsistent with any provision of this Act, be
deemed to have been done under the corresponding or related provision, if any,
of this Act.
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