Small Claims Courts Act, 1984 (Act No. 61 of 1984)Chapter I : Establishment and Nature of Small Claims Courts5. Language medium at proceedings |
| (1) | Either of the official languages of the Republic may be used at any stage of the proceedings of a court. |
| (2) | If evidence is given in a language with which one of the parties is in the opinion of the court not sufficiently conversant, a competent interpreter may be called by the court to interpret that evidence into a language with which that party appears to be sufficiently conversant, irrespective of whether the language in which the evidence is given is one of the official languages. |
[Subsection (2) substituted by section 2 of Act No. 92 of 1986]