Land Affairs General Amendment Act.

An Act various Acts, so as to provide for the deeds registries regulations board to make regulations regarding the manner in which the payment of the fees of office may be enforced, to validate certain acts, as to provide for the amendment, withdrawal and lapsing of conditions, to exclude issues concerning the definition of "occupier", and to provide for the secondment of judges and appointment of acting judges to the Land Claims Court, to extend the date upon which the right contemplated in the proviso to section 16(1) lapses; to authorize the Land Claims Court to issue an order where in proceedings before it, it is averred that the person sought to be evicted is a labour tenant, but it is subsequently not proved that such a person is a labour tenant; and to exempt awards of land certified by the Director-General from laws regulating the subdivision of land; to amend the Extension of Security of Tenure Act, 1997, so as to require the submission of a report to the Court for the purposes of section 9(2)(c); to extend the period for the review by the Land Claims Court of eviction orders by magistrates' courts pending the review thereof by the Land Claims Court; and to recognise the jurisdiction of the magistrate's court for purposes of section 20(2) of the said Act, to insert a procedure whereby the registrar of deeds may endorse a title deed in the event of land vesting in a municipality.