Act No. 11 of 2017

Act No. 11 of 2017 » Refugees Amend ment Act, 2017

Title	Act No. 11 of 2017 » Refugees Amend ment Act, 2017
Department	Parliament of the Republic of SA
Gazette	National Gazettes, No. 41343 of 18 December, 2017, 31 page(s), 314Kb
Act	Act No. 11 of 2017

2    No. 41343              GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18 DECEMBER 2017

Act No. 11 of 2017                                                            Refugees Amendment Act, 2017
                          GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:

[]Words in bold type in square brackets indicate omissions from
                                            existing enactments.
                                            Words underlined with a solid line indicate insertions in
                                            (English text signed by the President)
                                            existing enactments.
                                                (Assented to 27 June 2017)

(Engelse teks deur die President geteken)
                                            (English text signed by the President)
                                              (Goedgekeur op 27 Junie 2017)
                                             (Assented to 14 December 2017)

ACT

To amend the Refugees Act, 1998, so as to amend and insert certain de?nitions;
                          to include further provisions relating to disquali?cation from refugee status;
                          to provide for integrity measures to combat fraud and corruption among staff
                          members at Refugee Reception Offices, the Standing Committee and the Refugee
                          Appeals Authority; to omit provisions referring to the Status Determination
                          Committee; to substitute certain provisions relating to the Refugee Appeals
                          Authority; to provide for the re-establishment of the Standing Committee for
                          Refugee Affairs and to confer additional powers on the Standing Committee; to
                          confer additional powers on the Director-General; to clarify the procedure relating
                          to conditions attached to asylum seeker visas and abandonment of applications; to
                          revise provisions relating to the review of asylum applications; to provide for the
                          withdrawal of refugee status in respect of categories of refugees; to provide for
                          additional offences and penalties; to provide for transitional provisions; and to
                          provide for matters connected therewith.

B  E IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as
                               follows:—

Amendment of section 1 of Act 130 of 1998, as amended by section 1 of Act 33 of
                          2008 and section 1 of Act 12 of 2011

1. Section 1 of the Refugees Act, 1998 (Act No. 130 of 1998) (hereinafter referred to  5
                          as the ‘‘principal Act’’), is hereby amended—
                              (a) by the substitution for the de?nition of ‘‘asylum seeker permit’’ of the
                                  following de?nition:
                                     ‘‘ ‘asylum seeker [permit] visa’ means a [permit] visa contemplated in
                                     section 22;’’;                                            10
                              (b) by the substitution for the de?nition of ‘‘dependant’’ of the following
                                  de?nition:
                                     ‘‘ ‘dependant’ in relation to an asylum seeker or a refugee, means any
                                     unmarried minor dependant child, whether born prior to or after the
                                     application for asylum, a spouse or any destitute, aged or in?rm 15
                                     [member of the immediate family] parent of such asylum seeker or
                                     refugee who is dependent on him or her, and who is included by the
                                     asylum seeker in the application for asylum or, in the case of a dependant
                                     child born after the application for asylum, is registered in terms of
                                     section 21B(2);                                           20

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