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1. (Extract from the Interpretation Ordinance, 1953)

"......'native' means a British subject of any race which is now considered to be indigenous to Sarawak as set out in the Schedule:

Races which are now considered to be indigenous to Sarawak and therefore natives within the meaning of this Ordinance:

And any admixture of the above with each other.

2. (Extract from the Interpretation (Definition of Native) Ordinance 1952, as amended by the Interpretation (Definition of Native) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1958)

2.—(1) Wherever the word 'native', used as a substantive, occurs in any written law in force at the commencement of this Ordinance, other than the Ordinances set out in the Schedule to this Ordinance, or in any written law coming into force after the commencement of this Ordinance, unless expressly otherwise enacted therein, it shall mean either—

(a) any person both of whose parents are or were members of the people indigenous to the Colony; or

(b) any person ordinarily resident in the Colony and being and living as a member of a native community, one at least of whose parents or ancestors is or was a native within the meaning of paragraph (a) hereof; or 