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Act No. 57, 1969. 2. The following section is hereby inserted in the principal Act after section 18: “Manufacture, sale or supply of article which is intended to be used to perform an unnatural sexual act. 18A. (1) Any person who manufactures, sells or supplies any article which is intended to be used to perform an unnatural sexual act, shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), ‘sell’ includes to offer for sale, to keep for sale or to keep in a place where goods are sold, offered or kept for sale.”.

3. The following section is hereby inserted in the principal Act after section 20: “Acts committed between men at a party and which are calculated to stimulate sexual passion or to give sexual gratification, prohibited. 20A. (1) A male person who commits with another male person at a party an act which is calculated to stimulate sexual passion or to give sexual gratification, shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) ‘a party’ means any occasion where more than two persons are present.

(3) The provisions of subsection (1) do not derogate from the common law, any other provision of this Act or a provision of any other law.”.

4. Section 22 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (g) of the following paragraph:

in the case of an offence referred to in section 18A, 19, 20 (1) (b) or (c), or 20A (1), to a fine not exceeding four hundred rand or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.”.

5. Section 10 of the Act “To amend the law relative to the trial and punishment of the Crimes of Rape and Indecent Assault and Conduct” (Act No. 22 of 1898 (Natal)), is hereby repealed.

6. This Act shall be called the Immorality Amendment Act 1969.