7A    Minister may announce altered amounts

(1)     The Minister of Finance may announce in the national annual budget contemplated in section 27(1) of the Public Finance Management Act, 1999 (Act 1 of 1999), that, effective on a date or dates mentioned in that announcement, the amounts stipulated in section 4, 5, 6 or 7 will be altered to the extent mentioned in the announcement.

(2)     If the Minister of Finance makes an announcement of an alteration contemplated in subsection (1), that alteration comes into effect on the date or dates determined by the Minister of Finance in that announcement and continues to apply for a period of 12 months from that date subject to Parliament passing legislation giving effect to that announcement within that period of 12 months.

[Section  7A inserted by section 81(1) of Act 34 of 2019 deemed to have come into operation on 20 February, 2019]