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To make provision for the separate representation in Parliament and in the provincial council of the province of the Cape of Good Hope of Europeans and non-Europeans in that province, and to that end to amend the law relating to the registration of Europeans and non-Europeans as voters for Parliament and for the said provincial council; to amend the law relating to the registration of non-Europeans and natives in the province of Natal as voters for Parliament and for the provincial council of Natal; to establish a Board for Coloured Affairs; and to provide for matters incidental thereto.

(English text signed by the Officer Administering the Government.) (Assented to 15th June 1951.)

E IT ENACTED by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, as follows:―

1. In this Act, unless inconsistent with the context—

“Minister” means the Minister of the Interior; (iii)

“non-European” means a person who is not a white person and who is not a native for the purposes of the Representation of Natives Act, 1936 (Act No. 12 of 1936); (iv)

“prescribed” means prescribed by regulation made under the principal Act; (v)

“principal Act” means the Electoral Consolidation Act, 1946 (Act No. 46 of 1946); (ii)

“white person” means a person who in appearance obviously is, or who is generally accepted as a white person, but does not include a person, who, although in appearance obviously a white person, is generally accepted as a non-European. (i)