The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) has, at its virtual plenary sitting today, passed two Amendment Bills. These are the Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Act Amendment Bill (ULTRA) and the Correctional Services Amendment Bill.
The Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Act Amendment Bill stems from two court judgments. On the first finding, the Constitutional Court found that the Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Act (ULTRA), 1991 (Act No. 112 of 1991 as amended) was unconstitutional as it discriminated against the rights of women to independently own property. Secondly, the court found and ordered that ULTRA's Section 3 was inapplicable in the former apartheid homelands of Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei (formerly known as the TBVC states).
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