AGLC4 Rule 23.2.1: Legislative Materials: Statutes and Delegated Legislation

Cite South African statutes and delegated legislation under chapter 3 using the jurisdiction abbreviations in the table. Where a provincial Act's title begins with the name of its jurisdiction, remove the name from the title and show it in abbreviated form in the bracket.

AGLC4 page 249

Formatting

  • The title and year are italic, followed by the jurisdiction in round brackets.
  • The national jurisdiction is written South Africa in full; provinces use the abbreviations in the table.
  • A provincial name at the start of the title is removed and appears only as the abbreviation in the bracket (rule 3.1.3).
  • The pinpoint follows the bracket after a space.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 249
  1. 7
    Local Government Transition Act 1993 (South Africa).
  2. 8
    Digital Terrestrial Television Regulations 2009 (South Africa) reg 5.
  3. 9
    Land Administration Act 2003 (KZN). [Not: KwaZulu-Natal Land Administration Act 2003.]

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 249
  • KwaZulu-Natal Land Administration Act 2003.
    the provincial name must be moved out of the title into the jurisdiction bracket.

South African jurisdiction abbreviations for legislation

Quoted from the Guide, page 249
JurisdictionAbbreviation/Phrase
South AfricaSouth Africa
Eastern CapeEC
Free StateFS
GautengG
KwaZulu-NatalKZN
LimpopoLP
MpumalangaMP
North WestNW
Northern CapeNC
Western CapeWC

See also

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Formats, examples, passages, tables and the forms marked Not are quoted from the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th ed, Melbourne University Law Review Association, 2018), with the page of the Guide they appear on. Titles, summaries and explanations are our own.