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Small Claims Courts Act, 1984 (Act No. 61 of 1984)

Chapter I : Establishment and Nature of Small Claims Courts

5. Language medium at proceedings

 

(1) Either of the official languages of the Republic may be used at any stage of the proceedings of a court.

 

(2) If evidence is given in a language with which one of the parties is in the opinion of the court not sufficiently conversant, a competent interpreter may be called by the court to interpret that evidence into a language with which that party appears to be sufficiently conversant, irrespective of whether the language in which the evidence is given is one of the official languages.

[Subsection (2) substituted by section 2 of Act No. 92 of 1986]