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Act No. 72, 1985. procured or attempted to procure any white female for the purpose of having unlawful carnal intercourse with a coloured male, or any coloured female for the purpose of having unlawful carnal intercourse with a white male, for a period not exceeding seven years];”; and

by the substitution for paragraph (e) of the following paragraph:

in the case of an offence referred to in section 12 (1) or 13 (1) [or 16], to imprisonment for a period not exceeding seven years;”.

5. Section 195 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977, is hereby amended by the substitution in subsection (1) for the words following upon paragraph (i) of the following words: “and shall be competent but not compellable to give evidence for the prosecution in criminal proceedings where the accused is charged with any offence against the separate property of the wife or of the husband of the accused, or with any offence under [section 16 of the said Immorality Act, 1957, or], in the case of the territory, section 1 or 2 of the said Immorality Proclamation, 1934.”.

6. Section 261 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977, is hereby amended—

by the deletion, in subsection (1), of paragraphs (g) and (h); by the deletion, in subsection (2), of paragraphs (d) and (e), and by the deletion of subsection (3).

7. (1) The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949, is hereby repealed.

(2) Any of the parties to a marriage which, but for the provisions of the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949, would have been a valid marriage in the Republic, may with the consent of the other party or, if the other party is deceased, without such consent, apply to the Director-General: Home Affairs for a written direction contemplated in subsection (4).

(3) The Director-General: Home Affairs may, for the purposes of the consideration of an application referred to in subsection (2), require the applicant to furnish the said Director-General with such information or documents as he may deem necessary.

(4) If the Director-General: Home Affairs, after consideration of an application referred to in subsection (2) and of information, if any, furnished to him in terms of subsection (3) or contained in any document so furnished, as well as of any other information, if any, already at his disposal, is satisfied that—

the marriage in question would, but for the provisions of the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949, have been a valid marriage in the Republic; the said marriage has not on a ground other than the provisions of the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949, been dissolved or declared invalid by a competent court; and neither of the parties to the said marriage has after the contraction thereof and during the life of the other party lawfully married another person,

he shall direct in writing that the marriage in question shall for all purposes be a valid marriage in the Republic, and the marriage in question shall thereupon be deemed to have been such a valid marriage with effect from the date upon which it was contracted.

8. This Act shall be called the Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act, 1985.