TRC Final Report

Volume 1

Chapter 13

Subsection 9

1954 Riotous Assemblies and Suppression of Communism Amendment Act No 15:

W The Minister of Justice was ‘empowered to prohibit listed persons from being members of specific organisations or from attending gatherings of any description with out giving them the opportunity of making representations in their defence or furnishing reasons’. The Minister was also ‘authorized to prohibit any particular gathering or all gatherings, in any public place for specified periods’. Commenced: 15 April 1954

Repealed by s 73 of the Internal Security Act No 74 of 1982

1954 Blacks Resettlement Act No 19:

U Established a Resettlement Board which would remove blacks from townships. This authorised the Sophiatown and other removals. Commenced: 1 August 1954

Repealed by s 69 of the Black Communities Development Act No 4 of 1984

1955 Black Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Amendment Act No 59:

W Amended the 1953 Black Labour Relations Regulation Act. Provided for separate industrial conciliation machinery which applied to black workers other than those employed in farming operations, in domestic service, governmental or educational services or coal and gold mining industries (Horrell 1978: 288).

Repealed by s 63 of the Labour Relations Amendment Act No 57 of 1981

1955 Criminal Procedure Act No 56:

S Consolidated the laws relating to procedure and evidence in criminal proceedings. The Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act No 31 of 1917 and its numerous amendments were all repealed. Commenced: 1 July 1955

Repealed by s 344(1) of the Criminal Procedure Act No 51 of 1977

1956 Riotous Assemblies Act No 17:

S Prohibited gatherings in open-air public places if the Minister of Justice considered that they could endanger the public peace. Also included banishment as a form of punishment (Dugard 1978: 137). Commenced: 16 March 1956

Repealed in part (ss 1-9 inclusive and ss 19-20) byss 10-15 of the Internal Security

Act No 74 of 1982.

IN FORCE: Sections 16, 17 & 18 as at September 1996 (Section 17 covers the common- law offence of incitement to public violence): CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

1956 South Africa Act Amendment Act No 9:

P Effectively revalidated the 1951 Separate Representation of Voters Act (see above), which had been challenged and declared invalid. Commenced: 2 March 1956

Repealed by the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act 32 of 1961