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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(3) Any notice issued under subsection (1) or (2) may be withdrawn by the Minister by like notices.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.

Prohibition of certain publications.

5. (1) lf the Minister is satistied that any periodical or other publication—

(a)

serves inter alia as a means for expressing views or conveying infomation the publication of which is calculated to endanger the security of the State or the maintenance of law and order;

(b)

professes, by its name or otherwise, to be a publication for propagating the principles or promoting the spread of communism;

(c)

serves inter alia as a means for expressing views or conveying information the publication of which is calculated to further the achievement of any of the objects of communism;

(d)

is published or disseminated by, or under the direction or guidance of, an organization which has been declared an unlawful organization under section 4 (1) or (2) or which by virtue of the provisions of paragraph (a) of the definition of “unlawful organization” is an unlawful organization, or was published or disseminated by, or under the direction or guidance of, any such organization immediately prior to the date upon which it became an unlawful organization;

(e)

serves inter alia as a means for expressing views propagated by an organization referred to in paragraph (d), or did so serve immediately prior to the date referred to in that paragraph;

(f)

serves inter alia as a means for expressing views or conveying infomation the publication of which is calculated to cause, encourage or foment feelings of hostility between different population groups or parts of population groups of the Republic; or

(g)

is a continuation of or substitution for, whether or not under another name, any periodical or other publication the printing, publication or dissemination of which has been prohibited in terms of this section,

he may, subject to the provisions of sections 7 and 10 and without notice to any person concerned, by notice in the Gazette prohibit, or prohibit for a period specified in the notice, the printing, publication or dissemination of such periodical publication,