Article 173 of the Constitution of South Africa

Verbatim text

each has the inherent power to protect and regulate their own process, and to develop the common law, taking into account the interests of justice. [S. 173 substituted by s. 8 of the Constitution Seventeenth Amendment Act of 2012.] Appointment of judicial officers

What this means

The index files this text under article 173 of the Constitution of South Africa.
The index files it under the chapter heading “CHAPTER 6 — PROVINCES”.
The passage runs to about 43 words.

The row’s stored title is a body fragment, not a heading (“The Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of Appeal and the High Court of South Africa”), so it is not used as the provision’s title here.

The index gives this passage an article number but stores a body fragment where a heading would be, so the number could not be cross-checked against the text. Check it against the official Constitution before relying on it in a citation.

No rights vocabulary from our fixed word list appears in this passage, so no plain-language reading is offered for it.

This is a mechanical reading aid generated from the text above by matching words in it. It is not legal advice, not a lawyer’s interpretation, and not a substitute for the provision itself.

How to cite this

Constitution of South Africa, article 173, Portable Lawyer, https://www.portablelawyer.app/provision/8adc3722-2310-4124-a5df-beb3869bc974 (accessed 25 October 2026).

Canonical URL: https://www.portablelawyer.app/provision/8adc3722-2310-4124-a5df-beb3869bc974

Accessed 25 October 2026.

Link to the canonical URL above, not to a #section-… fragment on the jurisdiction page — the fragment is a scroll position, this URL is the provision.

Machine-readable versions

Markdown of this provision (sent as text/markdown)
llms.txt (curated index for AI agents)
llms-full.txt (corpus digest: counts and every provision URL)