MR BERGER
Chairperson, if I can develop an argument, my point is this - that is a major purpose of the Act, but the Act sets certain parameters - for example, if a perpetrator were to come today to say "I would like to apply for amnesty and appear before the TRC and I can give vital information about some massacre that has not yet been - the truth about which is not yet known."  Would the TRC and would the Amnesty Committee entertain that application even though it is late and I submit not because the Act says "you shall submit your application within a certain time".  The offices of the TRC  were kept open, I recall until midnight on that day so that applications could be submitted timeously.
	Chairperson, I'll come back if I might to the question of competing interests but there's a judgement ...[intervention]