MR STRYDOM
My further submission is that on Section 19 standing on it's own and then purely on interpretation issue, one must read any application for amnesty to also mean any - meaning also defective applications and there's no time period or limit to, connected to Section 19.  So the fact of the matter is that any application may be returned or further particulars can be asked or directions given in respect of completion etc and this is exactly what happened, that "any" cannot only refer to applications made on the prescribed form and as I've put in my heads, for that matter, applications assigned and attested to on the prescribed form.  Otherwise one would have expected the legislator to add here "upon receipt of any application in terms of Section 18" or "upon receipt of the application in the prescribed form for amnesty the Committee may return" but reference there is to any application.  If an Act is interpreted, each word must get..[intervention]