Small Claims Courts Act, 1984 (Act No. 61 of 1984)

Chapter I : Establishment and Nature of Small Claims Courts

6. Inspection of documents by public and custody thereof
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(1) Subject to the provisions of the rules, the documents of a court shall be available for inspection by the public under the supervision of the clerk of the court at the prescribed times and upon payment of the prescribed fees, and those documents shall be preserved at the seat of the magistracy of the district in which the seat of that court is situated for such period as the Director-General: Justice may determine.

[Subsection (1) substituted by section 3 of Act No. 92 of 1986]

 

(2)The Director-General: Justice may order that after the expiry of the period contemplated in subsection (1) the documents so preserved shall be removed to a specified place of custody or be destroyed or otherwise disposed of.