About: Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1997

An Entity of Type: Band, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1997 (Act No. 105 of 1997) is an act of the Parliament of South Africa which dealt with the consequences of the Constitutional Court's ruling in S v Makwanyane in which capital punishment was declared to be unconstitutional. The act repealed the laws allowing for the death penalty and amended various other laws referring to death sentences or capital offences. It also established a procedure by which existing death sentences could be converted to prison sentences, and fixed minimum sentences for certain serious crimes. The act came into force on 13 November 1998, except for the minimum sentencing provisions, which came into force on 1 May 1998.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1997 (Act No. 105 of 1997) is an act of the Parliament of South Africa which dealt with the consequences of the Constitutional Court's ruling in S v Makwanyane in which capital punishment was declared to be unconstitutional. The act repealed the laws allowing for the death penalty and amended various other laws referring to death sentences or capital offences. It also established a procedure by which existing death sentences could be converted to prison sentences, and fixed minimum sentences for certain serious crimes. The act came into force on 13 November 1998, except for the minimum sentencing provisions, which came into force on 1 May 1998. (en)
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 33228416 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 6897 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1029338122 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:bill
  • Criminal Law Amendment Bill (en)
dbp:billCitation
  • B46—1997 (en)
dbp:citation
  • Act No. 105 of 1997 (en)
dbp:dateAssented
  • 1997-11-27 (xsd:date)
dbp:dateCommenced
  • 0001-11-13 (xsd:gMonthDay)
dbp:enactedBy
dbp:introducedBy
dbp:keywords
dbp:longTitle
  • Act to make provision for the setting aside of all sentences of death in accordance with law and their substitution by lawful punishments; to amend certain laws so as to repeal provisions relating to capital punishment; to provide for minimum sentences for certain serious offences; and to provide for matters connected therewith. (en)
dbp:shortTitle
  • Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1997 (en)
dbp:status
  • in force (en)
dbp:summary
  • Establishes procedure for replacing death sentences with other sentences; repeals provisions related to capital punishment; sets minimum sentences for certain offences. (en)
dbp:territorialExtent
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1997 (Act No. 105 of 1997) is an act of the Parliament of South Africa which dealt with the consequences of the Constitutional Court's ruling in S v Makwanyane in which capital punishment was declared to be unconstitutional. The act repealed the laws allowing for the death penalty and amended various other laws referring to death sentences or capital offences. It also established a procedure by which existing death sentences could be converted to prison sentences, and fixed minimum sentences for certain serious crimes. The act came into force on 13 November 1998, except for the minimum sentencing provisions, which came into force on 1 May 1998. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1997 (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License