Act No. 48 of 2013

Act No. 48 of 2013 » South African Weather Service Amendment Act, 2013

Title	Act No. 48 of 2013 » South African Weather Service Amendment Act, 2013
Department	Parliament of the Republic of SA
Gazette	National Gazettes, No. 37239 of 16 January, 2014, 23 page(s), 173Kb
Act	Act No. 48 of 2013

2     No. 37239                         GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16 January 2014
                         Act No. 48 of 2013                 South African Weather Service Amendment Act, 2013

GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:

[]Words in bold type in square brackets indicate omissions from
                                            existing enactments.
                                            Words underlined with a solid line indicate insertions in
                                            existing enactments.

(English text signed by the President)
                                                (Assented to 14 January 2014)

ACT

To amend the South African Weather Service Act, 2001, so as to substitute and
                         insert certain deﬁnitions; to provide the Minister with policy determination and
                         supervisory powers; to extend the powers, functions and objectives of the Weather
                         Service so as to provide the Weather Service with a legal mandate to provide
                         ambient air quality services and to act as custodian of the South African Air
                         Quality Information System; to provide for the appointment and removal of the
                         Chief Executive Officer; to align the Act with the Public Finance Management Act,
                         1999, by providing for the Board to be the accounting authority for the Weather
                         Service; to delete certain obsolete provisions; to provide for the limitation of
                         liability of the Weather Service; to provide for offences and penalties; to amend the
                         Schedules to the Act; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

E IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as
                         B follows:—
                         Amendment of section 1 of Act 8 of 2001

1. Section 1 of the South African Weather Service Act, 2001 (Act No. 8 of 2001)
                         (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), is hereby amended—      5
                             (a) by the deletion of the Roman numerals preceding each deﬁnition;
                             (b) by the insertion before the deﬁnition of ‘‘advisory services’’ of the following
                                 deﬁnition:
                                     ‘‘ ‘advisory alert’ means an alert raising awareness up to ﬁve
                                     days in advance to either expected large-scale potential disruptive 10
                                     weather systems that could later lead to speciﬁc watches or warnings
                                     with time, or to less urgent alerts of uncommon conditions;’’;
                             (c) by the substitution for the deﬁnition of ‘‘advisory services’’ of the following
                                 deﬁnition:
                                     ‘‘ ‘advisory services’ means any climatological advice or advice on 15
                                     ambient air quality, and includes advice on weather outlooks, weather
                                     forecasts, [and] severe weather warnings, ambient air quality informa-
                                     tion services, ambient air quality forecasts and ambient air quality
                                     warnings;’’;

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