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Act No. 46 of 1951.

Act

To make provision for the separate representation in Parliament and in the provincial council of the province of the Cape of Good Hope of Europeans and non-Europeans in that province, and to that end to amend the law relating to the registration of Europeans and non-Europeans as voters for Parliament and for the said provincial council; to amend the law relating to the registration of non-Europeans and natives in the province of Natal as voters for Parliament and for the provincial council of Natal; to establish a Board for Coloured Affairs; and to provide for matters incidental thereto.

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(English text signed by the Officer Administering the Government.)
(Assented to 15th June 1951.)

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Be it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, as follows:―

Preliminary.

Definitions.

1. In this Act, unless inconsistent with the context—

(i)

“Minister” means the Minister of the Interior; (iii)

(ii)

“non-European” means a person who is not a white person and who is not a native for the purposes of the Representation of Natives Act, 1936 (Act No. 12 of 1936); (iv)

(iii)

“prescribed” means prescribed by regulation made under the principal Act; (v)

(iv)

“principal Act” means the Electoral Consolidation Act, 1946 (Act No. 46 of 1946); (ii)

(v)

“white person” means a person who in appearance obviously is, or who is generally accepted as a white person, but does not include a person, who, although in appearance obviously a white person, is generally accepted as a non-European. (i)

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