Act No. 1 of 1957.
Act
To amend the South Africa Act, 1909.
(English text signed by the Governor-General.)
(Assented to 15th February, 1957.)
Be it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, as follows:―
1. Section seventy-eight of the South Africa Act, 1909 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), is hereby amended―
| (a) | by the addition at the end of sub-section (3) of the words “or from being appointed as a deputy-administrator under the provisions of sub-section (4) of section sixty-eight.”; and | ||||
| (b) | by the insertion in sub-section (4) after the words “executive committee” where they occur for the first time of the words “other than a casual vacancy arising through the appointment of a member of the executive committee as a deputy-administrator under the provisions of sub-section (4) of section sixty-eight,” and by the addition to that sub-section of the following paragraph, the existing sub-section becoming paragraph (a):
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2. Section seventy-nine of the principal Act is hereby amended by the addition at the end thereof of the following proviso:
“Provided that a member of the executive committee who is a member of the provincial council and who is appointed a deputy-administrator under the provisions of sub-section (4) of section sixty-eight, shall during the period of such appointment retain his right to vote as a member of the provincial council.”.
3. This Act shall be called the South Africa Act Further Amendment Act, 1957.
