Implementation of Geneva Conventions Act, 2012
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Communal Land Rights Act, 2004 (Act No. 11 of 2004)Chapter 2 : Juristic Personality and Legal Security of Tenure4. Security of tenure |
| 1) | A community or person is entitled to the extent and in the manner provided for in this Act and within the available resources of the State, either to tenure which is legally secure or to comparable redress if the tenure of land of such community or person is legally insecure as a result of past racially discriminatory laws or practices. |
| 2) | An old order right held by a married person is, despite any law, practice, usage or registration to the contrary, deemed to be held by all spouses in a marriage in which such person is a spouse, jointly in undivided shares irrespective of the matrimonial property regime applicable to such marriage and must, on confirmation or conversion in terms of section 18(3), be registered in the names of all such spouses. |
| 3) | A woman is entitled to the same legally secure tenure, rights in or to land and benefits from land as is a man, and no law, community or other rule, practice or usage may discriminate against any person on the ground of the gender of such person. |
