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Protection of Businesses Act, 1978 (Act No. 99 of 1978)

1D. Prohibition of recognition or enforcement of certain judgments, orders, directions, arbitration awards, interrogatories, commissions rogatoire, letters of request or other requests

 

No judgment, order, direction, arbitration award, interrogatory, commission rogatoire, letters of request or any other request delivered, given or issued outside the Republic or emanating from outside the Republic and which arises from any act or transaction referred to in subsection (3) of section 1 shall be recognized or enforced in the Republic, irrespective of whether or not the Minister has given his consent in terms of that section, if such judgment, order, direction, arbitration award, interrogatory, commission rogatoire, letters of request or other request is connected with any liability which arises from any bodily injury of any person resulting directly or indirectly from the consumption or use of or exposure to any natural resource of the Republic, whether unprocessed or partially processed or wholly processed, or any product containing or processed from any such natural resource, unless the same liability would have arisen under the law of the Republic, as it existed at the time of the occurrence of the event which gave rise to the liability.

 

[Section 1D inserted by section 2 of Act 87 of 1987.]