Report of the Select Committee on Security and Constitutional Affairs on the Judicial Officers (Amendment of Conditions of Service) Bill [B 33 - 2003] (National Assembly - sec 75), dated 27 August 2003:

The Select Committee on Security and Constitutional Affairs, having considered the subject of the Judicial Officers (Amendment of Conditions of Service) Bill [B 33 - 2003] (National Assembly - sec 75), referred to it, reports the Bill with proposed amendments, as follows:

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1. On page 10, in line 34, to omit "17" and to substitute "10".

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Clause rejected.

NEW CLAUSE
1. That the following be a new Clause:
Amendment of section 13 of Act 47 of 2001
18. Section 13 of the Judges' Remuneration and Conditions of Employment Act, 2001, is amended -
(a) by the addition in subsection (1) of the following paragraphs:
"(cA) the requirements for, and the registration of, not more than one person and the deregistration of that person as a partner of a Constitutional Court judge or a judge with the Director-General: Justice and Constitutional Development;
(cB) the determination, for the purposes of the proviso to section 9(1), 10(1) or 11(7), by a Constitutional Court judge or judge who has more than one spouse, of the division of the amounts referred to in those sections between those spouses in the event of his or her death;"; and
(b) by the deletion in subsection (1) of paragraph (e).

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1. On page 11, in line 26, after "(1)" to insert "Subject to subsection (2),".
2. On page 11, after line 33, to insert:
(2) The remuneration referred to in subsection (1) does not include any amount payable -
(a) to a magistrate under a regulation made in terms of section 16(1)(a) or (g) of the Magistrates Act, 1993; or
(b) to a judge under a regulation made in terms of section 13(1)(c) or (d) of the Judges' Remuneration and Conditions of Employment Act, 2001.

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1. On page 11, in line 43, to omit "1 November 2003 or on such earlier date as may be" and to substitute "a date".