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Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Act, 1991 (Act No. 112 of 1991)

Chapter 3 : Miscellaneous

25. Application of Act in self-governing territories

 

(1) The President  may,  after  consultation  with  the  cabinet  of  a self-governing  territory  as  referred  to  in  section  29  of  the  Self-governing Territories Constitution Act, 1971 (Act No. 21of 1971), and by proclamation in the Gazette, declare this Act to be applicable in such territory.

 

(2) In applying this Act in a self-governing territory under subsection (1), a reference in this Act—
(a) to the Minister  or to the Minister, as the case may be, shall be construed as a reference to the Minister of the self-governing territory to whom the Chief Minister of the self-governing territory has assigned the administration of this Act;
(b) to the Official Gazette shall be construed as a reference to the Official Gazette of the self-governing territory;
(c) to the State or to State-owned land shall be construed as a reference to the government of the self-governing territory or to land of which the ownership vests in that government, respectively;
(d) to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the commencement of the relevant proclamation under that subsection.

 

(3)
(a) As from the date on which this Act is declared under subsection (1) to be applicable in a self-governing territory, the Land Survey Act, 1927 (Act No. 9 of 1927), the Deeds Act, any regulation or other enactment issued under the said Acts and any amendment of the said Acts or any such regulation or enactment shall be of force and effect in such territory to the exclusion of any corresponding act, regulation or enactment in force in such territory.
(b) Anything done in terms of a provision of any such corresponding act, regulation or enactment and which is permitted or required to be done in terms of a provision of the Land Survey Act, 1927, the Deeds Act or any regulation or other enactment issued thereunder, as the case may be, shall be deemed to have been done in terms of the latter provision.