The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development, having considered the report of the Magistrates Commission on the provisional suspension from office of Mr FKS Ntuli, an additional Magistrate at Uitenhage, pending the outcome of an investigation into his fitness to hold office as a Magistrate, as required by section 13(3)(b) of the Magistrates Act, 1993 (Act 90 of 1993), reports as follows: