Hon Chair, section 51(1) of the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1997 provides for a minimum sentence of imprisonment for life in respect of a person convicted of an offence referred to in Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the said Act, which includes, inter alia, murder when "the victim was a law-enforcement officer performing his or her function as such, whether on duty or not". The courts will take this into account in all cases where a police official is a victim of murder. Thank you, Chair.