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Government Gazette, 9 June 1982
No. 8232     93

Internal Security Act, 1982
Act No. 74, 1982.

(a)

declare any organization to be an unlawful organization in terms of the said section 4 (1);

(b)

prohibit the printing, publication or dissemination of any periodical or other publication in terms of the said section 5 (1);

(c)

impose a particular prohibition upon any person in terms of the said section 18 (1), 19 (1) or (2) (b) or 20; or

(d)

cause any person to be detained in terms of the said section 28 (1),

as the case may be—

(i)

warn such organization to refrain from specified activities;

(ii)

warn such publication to refrain from specified actions or the propagation of specified views; or

(iii)

warn a person referred to in paragraph (c) or (d) to refrain from engaging in specified activities or from any specified action,

as the case may be.

(2) Any warning referred to in subsection (1) shall be administered to the organization, publication or person concerned either by means of a written notice signed by the Minister and addressed to the organization, publication or person concerned and served upon an office-bearer of the organization, the proprietor or publisher of the publication or the person concerned, as the case may be, or, on the instructions of the Minister, by the Director or a magistrate.


Seizure of money or other articles transmitted through post for certain purposes.

71. (1) Any postal article containing or suspected to contain any money or other article intended for any of the purposes referred to in section 60 (1) may be detained by the Postmaster-General and forwarded to the Commissioner for disposal as hereinafter provided.

(2) The Commissioner may open for examination any postal article received by him in pursuance of the provisions of subsection (1).

(3) If a postal article opened in terms of subsection (2) contains any money or other article which the Commissioner has reason to believe is intended for any of the purposes referred to in section 60 (1), he shall forward it to the Minister for disposal as hereinafter provided.

(4) The Minister may, if he has reason to believe that the money or other article contained in a postal article forwarded to him in terms of subsection (3) is intended for any of the purposes referred to in section 60 (1), cause that money or other article to be seized and shall cause the sender thereof, if his name and address are known, and the person to whom the postal article is addressed, to be informed forthwith of the seizure and of the reasons therefor.

(5) Any money or other article seized in terms of subsection (4) shall be forfeited to the State unless the sender or the person to whom it was addressed, within ninety days of the seizure satisfies the Minister that the said money or other article was not intended for any of the purposes referred to in section 60 (1).

(6) Any postal article detained under subsection (1) and not dealt with as provided in subsection (3), (4) or (5), shall be forwarded without delay to the person to whom it is addressed.

(7) For the purposes of this section “postal article” means a postal article as defined in section 1 of the Post Office Act, 1958 (Act No. 44 of 1958).


Reports to Parliament.

72. Whenever—

(a)

any action has been taken under section 4 (1) or (2), 5 (1), 18 (1), 19 (1) or (2), 20 or 28 (1);

(b)

any gathering has been prohibited under the provisions of section 46 (1) (i) or (3) or a direction in connection