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Act No. 34 of 1960.

and sub-section (2) of section seven, and sections eight, eight bis, nine, ten and fourteen, shall in so far as they are appropriate and can be applied, mutatis mutandis apply with reference to any organization which in terms of a proclamation under sub-section (1) or (2) of section one of this Act is an unlawful organization, and for that purpose—

(a)

any reference in the Suppression of Communism Act, 1950, to any organization which has in terms of sub-section (2) of section two of that Act been declared to be an unlawful organization, shall be construed as a reference to an organization which has been declared to be an unlawful organization under sub-section (1) or (2) of section one of this Act;

(b)

any reference in the Suppression of Communism Act, 1950, to the date of commencement of that Act, shall be construed as a reference to the date of commencement of this Act;

(c)

any reference in the Suppression of Communism Act, 1950, to the date on which any organization becomes an unlawful organization in terms of a proclamation under sub-section (2) of section two of that Act, shall be construed as a reference to the date on which an organization becomes an unlawful organization in terms of a proclamation under sub-section (1) or (2) of section one of this Act;

(d)

any reference in the Suppression of Communism Act 1950, to the objects of communism, shall be construed as a reference to the objects of an organization which is an unlawful organization in terms of a proclamation under sub-section (1) or (2) of section one of this Act; and

(e)

the reference in sub-section (3) of section two of the Suppression of Communism Act, 1950, to paragraph (b), (c) or (d) of sub-section (2) of section two of that Act, shall be construed as a reference to section one of this Act.

Reports to Parliament.

3. The Minister shall lay copies of any proclamation issued under section one on the Tables of both Houses of Parliament within fourteen days after the publication thereof, if Parliament is then in session, or, if Parliament is not then in session, within fourteen days after the commencement of its first ensuing session.

Amendment of section 15 of Act 17 of 1956.

4. (1) Section fifteen of the Riotous Assemblies Act, 1956, is hereby amended by the substitution for all the words following the word “liable” of the words “to the penalties prescribed in section two of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1953 (Act No. 8 of 1953)”.

(2) Sub-section (1) shall be deemed to have come into operation on the twenty-eighth day of March, 1960.

Application to South-West Africa.

5. This Act shall apply also in the territory of South-West Africa.

Short title.

6. This Act shall be called the Unlawful Organizations Act, 1960.

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