NGCOBO J (a) The failure by the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Development to comply with the rules for the filing of the notice of appeal and the application for leave to appeal is condoned. (b) The appeal by the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Development is upheld. (c) The orders of invalidity made by the North Gauteng High Court, Pretoria in respect of sections 153(3) and (5), 158(5), 164(1) and 170A(1) and (7) of the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 are not confirmed. (d) The further orders that were made by the North Gauteng High Court, Pretoria in paragraphs 8–15 of its order are set aside. (e) The Director-General for the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development is required to submit a report to this Court by no later than 1 July 2009 setting out the following information: 1. A list of Regional Courts indicating how many intermediaries each Regional Court requires to meet its needs and how many intermediaries each Regional Court has. 2. If the Regional Courts do not have the number of intermediaries required to meet their needs, the steps which are being taken to ensure that each Regional Court has the number of intermediaries necessary to meet its needs. 105