means—
| a) | the Constitutional Court acting in terms of section 167(6)(a) of the Constitution; or |
| b) |
| i) | a High Court or another court of similar status; or |
| ii) | a Magistrate’s Court, for any district or for any regional division established by the Minister for the purposes of adjudicating civil disputes in terms of section 2 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1944 (Act No. 32 of 1944), either generally or in respect of a specified class of administrative actions, designated by the Minister by notice in the Gazette and presided over by a magistrate, an additional magistrate or a magistrate of a regional division established for the purposes of adjudicating civil disputes, as the case may be, designated in terms of section 9A, |
within whose area of jurisdiction the administrative action occurred or the administrator has his or her or its principal place of administration or the party whose rights have been affected is domiciled or ordinarily resident or the adverse effect of the administrative action was, is or will be experienced;
[Definition substituted by section 8 of Act No. 24 of 2015, GG 39587, dated 8 January 2016]