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Government Gazette, 3 March 1994
No. 15550 17

Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Amendment Act, 1994 Act No. 2, 1994

Prevalence of English text of Constitution

15. Notwithstanding the fact that the Afrikaans text of the principal Act is the signed text, the English text of that Act shall, for the purposes of its interpretation, prevail as if it were the signed text.


Short title and commencement

16. (1) This Act shall be called the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Amendment Act, 1994, and shall, subject to subsection (2), come into operation on 27 April 1994.

(2) Section 251(2) and (3) of the principal Act shall apply mutatis mutandis to a provision of this Act.