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TRANSKEIAN PENAL CODE REPEAL ACT IN FORCE
- 02 April 2024
- New Legislation
- SA Legal Academy
The Repeal of the Transkeian Penal Code Act, 2023, is now in force. This is according to a presidential proclamation gazetted on 2 April 2024, when the Act commenced.
By repealing the 1983 penal code, the new piece of legislation:
- reinstates common-law rules, crimes and defences abolished at the time throughout an area formerly known as the Republic of Transkei
- provides legal certainty where, before, it was unclear if the code superseded common law, and
- demonstrates government’s ongoing commitment to a unitary judicial system’.
This notwithstanding, the Act’s transitional provisions provide that legal and other proceedings begun before its commencement should continue regardless.
- presidential proclamation
- Act
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch
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