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Defence Act, 2002 (Act No. 42 of 2002)

Chapter 9 : Employment in Defence Force

61. Procedures for redress of grievances

 

1) Any person to whom this Act applies and who is aggrieved by any act or omission of any other person to whom this Act applies, may lodge his or her grievance in writing.

 

2) The Minister must prescribe procedures, which must, among other things, specify the expeditious processing of grievances and the chain of command through which individuals and groups within the Department may address individual and collective grievances.

 

3) The Minister may perform any act in connection with any grievance which relates to or arises from the employment or the conditions of service of a former member while he or she was a member, if the Minister would, at the relevant time, have been competent in terms of this Act or any other law to perform any such act in respect of the then serving member.

 

4) No act contemplated in subsection (3) may be performed after the expiration of a period of two years after the date on which the former member ceased to be a member.