TRC Final Report

Volume 1

Chapter 13

Subsection 10

1956 Mines and Works Act No 27:

W Commenced: 4 May 1956

IN FORCE (as amended by the Mines and Works Amendment Act No 51 of 1959): MINES, WORKS AND FACTORIES

1956 Industrial Conciliation Act (Labour Relations Act) No 28:

W Replaced the 1924 and 1937 Industrial Conciliation Acts. A new provision, s 77, provided for job reservation. Although excluded from the provisions of the Act, blacks were included in the definition of ‘employee’ for the purposes of this section. Black trade unions, though they could not be registered under the Act, were not illegal (Horrell 1978: 263, 281).

Commenced: 1 January 1957 Repealed by the Labour Relations Act No 66 of 1995

1956 Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 30:

P Amended the 1951 Separate Representation of Voters Act to remove coloureds from the common roll. The Senate was enlarged to obtain the required majority. Commenced: 18 May 1956

Repealed by s 4 of the Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 50 of 1968

1956 Bantu (Black) Administration Amendment Act No 42:

L Amended the 1927 Black Administration Act so that a person being banished in terms of s 5(1)(b) could no longer present her/his case to the Governor-General (Dugard 1978: 140). (See also: Black (Native) Laws Amendment Act No 54 of 1952, above.) Commenced: 1 June 1956

Repealed by the Abolition of Influx Control Act No 68 of 1986

1956 Blacks (Prohibition of Interdicts) Act No 64:

L Prohibited ’Africans from obtaining a court interdict to suspend the operation of any banishment order pending an attack on the validity of any such order’ (Dugard 1978: 78). Assent gained: 15 June 1956; commencement date not found

Repealed by s 17 of the Abolition of Influx Control Act No 68 of 1986

1957 Sexual Offences Act (Immorality Act) No 23 (s 16):

A Made it an offence for a white person to have intercourse with a black person or to commit any ‘immoral or indecent act’ (Dugard 1978: 69). This Act repealed the 1927 Immorality Act and the 1950 Immorality Amendment Act.

Commenced: 12 April 1957 IN FORCE, although s 16 was repealed by the Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act No 72 of 1985: CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE