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GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9 JUNE 1982

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To provide for the security of the State and the maintenance of law and order; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

(Afrikaans text signed by the State President.) (Assented to 1 June 1982.)

E IT ENACTED by the State President and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:―

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1. In this Act, unless the context otherwise indicates—

“authorized officer” means a person designated as such under section 6 (1), and includes any person acting under his written authority; (vii)

“board of review” means a board of review established under section 35; (ix)

“Commissioner” means the Commissioner of the South African Police; (xii)

“communism” means any doctrine, ideology or scheme—

which is based on, has developed from or is related to the tenets of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin or Mao Tse-Tung, or of any other recognized theorist in connection with or exponent of those tenets, and which aims at the establishment of any form of socialism or collective ownership;

which aims at the establishment, by means of a class or group polarization of the community and