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Defence Act, 1957 (Act No. 44 of 1957)

Chapter X : Provisions Applicable in time of War or in connection with the Combating of Terrorism or in connection with an Armed Conflict outside the Republic or in connection with Internal Disorder or other Emergency

98. Appointment and proceedings of exemption boards

 

 

(1) Whenever the circumstances so require, the Minister of Manpower shall, in consultation with the Minister, appoint one or more exemption boards to consider and, subject to a directive in terms of sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section seventy-four bis, decide upon applications for exemption under section ninety-seven.

[Subsection (1) amended by section 36 of Act No. 132 of 1992]

 

(2) Any such board shall be constituted in the same manner as a board appointed in terms of section sixty-eight.

[Subsection (2) substituted by section 11(a) of Act No. 42 of 1961]

 

(3) The provisions of subsection (3) of section sixty-eight and subsections (2) and (3) of section sixty-nine shall mutatis mutandis apply with reference to an exemption board appointed under this section, and in the application of the said subsection (2) the reference therein to the registering officer shall be construed as a reference to a prescribed officer.

 

(4) [Subsection (4) deleted by section 17 of Act 88 of 1996]