To amend the Education Affairs Act (House of Assembly), 1988, so as to provide for the payment of rates by the State in respect of immovable property owned by state-aided schools; to amend the Education Policy Act, 1967, so as to make provision for the recognition of a successor to the Teachers' Federal Council; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
(Assented to 1 October 1993.
Amendment of section 31A of Act 70 of 1988, as inserted by section 7 of Act 88 of 1991 and amended by section 4 of Act 39 of 1992 and section 2 of Act 36 of 1993 1.
(5) (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 the State shall, in respect of the immovable property of a state-aided school, remain liable for the payment of rates which are levied under any law by a local authority on the value of immovable property within its area of jurisdiction.
For the purposes of the Rating of State Property Act, 1984 (Act No. 79 of 1984), a state-aided school shall be deemed to be a governmental institution as defined in section 1(1) of that Act.
Amendment of section 8B of Act 39 of 1967, as inserted by section 14 of Act 103 of 1986 2.
"(1) If a body is established by the Federal Council of Teachers' Associations in South Africa and the South African Teachers' Council for Whites established by section 2 of the South African Teachers' Council for Whites Act, 1976 (Act No. 116 of 1976), that body and any successor to that body shall be recognized by the Minister by notice in the Gazette as a juristic person with the object of promoting the prestige of the white teaching profession."
"(1A) Unless it is patently inappropriate in a particular case an reference to the Teachers' Federal Council or its predecessors in any law, contract, statutory register or record, or other document, shall, with effect from the date on which the Minister recognizes any successor as contemplated in subsection (1), be deemed to constitute a reference to such successor.".
This Act shall be called the Education Laws Amendment Act (House of Assembly), 1993.
The provisions of section 1 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 19 June 1991.