4-1-2-6 SPACE AFFAIRS ACT: To Provide for the Establishment of a Council to Managed and Control Certain Space Affairs in the Republic; to Determine its Objects and Functions; to Prescribe the Manner in Which It Is to be Managed and Control; and to Provide for matter connected therewith. (Assented to 23 June, 1993)

24. Entering into and Ratification of Conventions, Treaties and Agreements.

(1)

The State President may, by proclamation in the Gazette, add to this Act any Schedule in which the provisions of an international convention, treaty or agreement relating to space affairs entered into or ratified by the Government of the Republic, are included.

(2)

(a)

The State President may, by proclamation in the Gazette, amend the Schedule—

(i)

to give effect to any amendment of or addition to a convention, treaty or agreement referred to in subsection (1) which may be made from time to time and has been ratified by the Government of the Republic;

(ii)

by the substitution for any convention, treaty or agreement appearing therein of a new convention, treaty or agreement entered into or ratified by the Government of the Republic under subsection (1).

(b)

A proclamation in terms of paragraph (a) may be made with retrospective effect as from the date on which the amendment or addition or the new convention, treaty or agreement was ratified by the Government of the Republic.

(3)

On the date of commencement of a proclamation in terms of subsection (1) or (2), the convention, treaty or agreement or the amendment thereof or the addition thereto, as the case may be, shall have the force of law and apply in the Republic.

(4)

The Minister shall lay a copy of every proclamation issued under subsection (1) or (2) upon the Table in Parliament within 14 days after publication thereof in the Gazette. If Parliament is then in ordinary session or, if Parliament is not then in ordinary session, within 14 days after the commencement of its next ensuring ordinary session.