at any time during the period between the date so specified and the date of publication of such notice was an office-bearer, officer or member of any body, organization, group or association of persons, institution, society or movement corresponding to the description or known by a name corresponding to the name of any body, organization, group or association of persons, institution, society or movement in respect of which the notice has been issued, shall, for the purposes of any criminal proceedings, be deemed to have become an office-bearer, officer or member of the unlawful organization specified in the notice, on the day immediately following upon the date so specified.
(3) Any notice issued under subsection (1) or (2) may be withdrawn by the Minister by like notices.
(4) The provisions of subsection (1) (a), (b) (ii) and (iii), (c) and (d) shall not apply in relation to an employers’ organization or trade union registered under the Labour Relations Act, 1956 (Act No. 28 of 1956) or to any employers’ organization or trade union whose registration under the said Act has been cancelled in terms of section 14 of that Act, until such organization or trade union or any office-bearer, officer or member thereof has had a reasonable opportunity of exhausting, in respect of such cancellation, the remedies provided in section 16 or 27 of the said Act.
(5) A notice under subsection (1) or (2) shall not be invalid or ineffective by reason of the fact that the organization in question was dissolved before the coming into operation of the notice.
5. (1) lf the Minister is satistied that any periodical or other publication—