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Act No. 46 of 1951.

(2) The name of any non-European or native who ceases to be qualified to be registered in terms of sub-section (1) shall be removed from the voters’ list, and shall not thereafter be restored to it.

(3) After the date of commencement of this Act no non-European or native in the province of Natal shall, notwithstanding the provisions of section five of the principal Act, be entitled to be registered as a voter in the said province.

(4) The preceding provisions of this section shall not affect the right of any non-European to be registered on the Cape Coloured voters’ list or of any native to be registered on the Cape native voters’ roll in terms of the Representation of Natives Act, 1936 (Act No. 12 of 1936).

The Board for Coloured Affairs.

Establishment of Board for Coloured Affairs.

14. (1) A Board for Coloured Affairs (hereinafter called the Board) is hereby established, consisting of three non-European members who shall be nominated by the Governor-General and eight non-European members who are to be elected.

(2) (a) The three non-European members to be nominated, shall represent, respectively, the provinces of Natal, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal.

(b) No person shall be nominated as a member unless—

(i)

he qualifies mutatis mutandis, in terms of paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of sub-section (1) of section four of the principal Act; and

(ii)

has resided for a period of two years immediately prior to the date of his appointment in the province that he is nominated to represent, and continues to reside therein.

(3) Any person who is qualified to be registered in the Cape Coloured voters’ list and has in addition resided in the province of the Cape of Good Hope for a period of two years immediately prior to the date of his election, shall be qualified to be elected as a member of the Board.

(4) The following persons shall have the right to attend meetings of the Board, and to take part in its deliberations, but shall not have the right to vote, except in the case of equality of voting, when the chairman shall have the right to exercise a casting vote—

(a)

the Commissioner for Coloured Affairs (an office to be established to fall under the direction and control of the Minister of the Interior) who shall be the Chairman of the Board;

(b)

a representative of the Department of Social Welfare;

(c)

a representative of the Department of Labour; and

(d)

a representative of the Administration of the province of the Cape of Good Hope.

Election of members of the Board.

15. (1) The persons whose names appear in the Cape Coloured voters’ list for any Union electoral division, shall be entitled to elect two members of the Board as representing such electoral division.

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