IOS2601 Assignment 1 Semester 1 & 2 2021

QUESTION 1 List the documents that, although published in the Government Gazette, do not constitute legislation. 1. Green and white papers 2. Interpretation notes 3. explanatory memoranda 4. Reports 5. Legal notices 6. Draft bills 7. Discussion documents 8. Policy documents Explain the ordinary civil method of the computation of days with reference to the case law. Section 4 of the Interpretation Act provides that days are computed by excluding the first day and including the last day, unless it falls on a Sunday or public holiday in which case the Sunday or public holiday is also excluded. Section 4 will only apply when the legislature has made no other arrangements in the legislation concerned. Where section 4 is not applicable the courts have accepted that the ordinary civil method applies. This method is directly opposite to the statutory method of section 4 of the Interpretation Act. Time is computed de die in diem. The first day of the prescribed period is included and the last day excluded. The last day is regarded as ending at the very moment it begins as it were (at midnight of the previous day). Minister van Polisie v De Beer1 (computatio civilis) Computatio civilis (ordinary civil method): this method is directly opposed to the statutory method of section 4 of the Interpretation Act. The first day of the prescribed period is included and the last day excluded. The last day is regarded as ending at the very moment it begins as it were (at midnight of the previous day).