JUDICIAL MATTERS AMENDMENT ACT UNPACKED

JUDICIAL MATTERS AMENDMENT ACT UNPACKED

• 15 April 2024
• Justice & Constitutional Development
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Justice & Constitutional Development has published a fact sheet unpacking the recently promulgated Judicial Matters Amendment Act, 2023. This is noting that most sections of the Act came into effect on 3 April 2024, when it was gazetted.

Only the new Act’s section 9 has yet to come into force. Amending section 103 of the Administration of Estates Act, 1965 (the Minister’s powers to make regulations), according to the fact sheet ‘new regulations’ are required before this section can be commenced. They are in the process of being developed.

SA Legal Academy has already reported on several important provisions in the Act. The fact sheet draws attention to others, including:

• four Constitutional Court judgments to which the new Act responds
• ‘important amendments’ to the Administration of Estates Act, 1965, and
• provisions allowing the expungement of criminal records where Covid-19 State of Disaster regulations were violated and an admission of guilt fine was paid.

For more information, please click the links below:

• fact sheet
• Act
• SA Legal Academy report

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