The Repeal of the Transkeian Penal Code Act, 2023 (Act No. 4 of 2023)5. Savings |
| (1) | Nothing in this Act affects— |
| (a) | the exercise of any power in terms of the Code or any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred in terms of the Code; |
| (b) | any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed in terms of the provisions of the Code; and |
| (c) | any appointment to any office made in terms of the Code, if a corresponding law in operation in the rest of the Republic of South Africa also provides for such appointment, and anything done in connection with or by virtue of any such appointment, is deemed to have been done in terms of such correspond-ing law. |
| (2) | As from the commencement of this Act, any provision of the Code which confers a power, jurisdiction or right, imposes a duty or entrusts a function to the holder of an office, a body, an institution or any other authority appointed or established in terms of the Code, such power, jurisdiction or right must be exercised and such duty or function must be performed by the holder of a corresponding office, or a corresponding body, institution or authority appointed or established for the purpose of exercising a corresponding power, jurisdiction or right, or performing a corresponding duty or function, in terms of a corresponding law in operation in the Republic of South Africa. |
| (3) | Any reference in a law in operation in the area formerly known as the Republic of Transkei to a duty, function, power, procedure, process, provision or any other act in terms of the Code which, when the operation of the Code is repealed by this Act, must be construed as a reference to a duty, function, power, procedure, process, provision or act in terms of a corresponding law in operation in the Republic of South Africa. |