(5) Advice received by the State President in terms of this section shall be laid upon the Table in the House of Assembly within 14 days after receipt thereof if the House of Assembly is in session or within 14 days after the commencement of its next ensuing session if the House of Assembly is not in session. (6) The chairman of the President’s Council may, for the purposes of a report to such council on any matter, appoint a committee from among the members of the council and may designate any member of such committee as chairman thereof.”. |
35. Section 117 of the principal Act is hereby amended―
(a) | by the substitution for paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of the following paragraph:
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(b) | by the insertion after the said paragraph of the following paragraph:
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36. The principal Act is hereby amended by the deletion of all the words following upon the Schedule.
37. (1) This Act shall be called the Republic of South Africa Constitution Fifth Amendment Act, 1980, and the provisions thereof, excluding the provisions of sections 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (a), 17 and 34 and of this section, shall come into operation on the first day of January 1981.
(2) The provisions of the said sections 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (a), 17 and 34 shall come into operation on a date fixed by the State President by proclamation in the Gazette, and he may so fix different dates in respect of different provisions.
(3) Any person nominated or elected as a member of the House of Assembly in terms of section 40 (1) (b) or (c) of the principal Act, shall hold office with effect from the date of his nomination or election, and from that date such person shall be required to comply with the requirements with which a person is required to comply who accepts a nomination to be elected as a member of the House of Assembly or who has been elected as such, and any consequences resulting from such nomination or election shall be applicable to such person.
(4) A person who has been nominated or elected as a member of the House of Assembly in terms of section 40 (1) (b) or (c) of the principal Act prior to the first dissolution of the House of Assembly after the commencement of the appropriate provision of