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2. (1) As soon as possible after the date of commencement of this Act, the Minister shall cause a register (hereinafter referred to as the Cape Coloured voters’ list) to be compiled.

(2) Save as hereinafter in this section provided, the Cape Coloured voters’ list shall include all the names of non-Europeans, which at the aforesaid date are included in lists then valid according to the provisions of the principal Act, of persons qualified to vote in the province of the Cape of Good Hope at elections of members of the House of Assembly.

(3) All non-Europeans whose names are not included in the lists referred to in sub-section (2) and who are qualified in terms of section four of the principal Act shall, upon application in the prescribed manner, be entitled to be registered in the Cape Coloured voters’ list.

(4) The removal of the name of any non-European from the Cape Coloured voters’ list, on the ground that he is not qualified in terms of section four aforesaid, shall take place on objection duly made, in accordance with the prescribed procedure.

(5) The Minister shall cause the Cape Coloured voters’ list to be divided—

into four parts, one for each electoral division (hereinafter called a Union electoral division), as determined under the provisions of paragraph (a) of sub-section (2) of section six, for the House of Assembly;

into two parts, one for each electoral division (hereinafter called a provincial electoral division), as determined under the provisions of paragraph (b) of sub-section (2) of section six, for the provincial council of the province of the Cape of Good Hope.

(6) Each part of the Cape Coloured voters’ list, as determined under sub-section (5), shall contain the names of persons registered in the said list who reside in the electoral division to which that part relates.

(7) Every person who is classified as a non-European on any voters’ list in existence at the date of commencement of this Act, which has been framed under the principal Act, as for an electoral division in the province of the Cape of Good Hope, shall until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be a non-European for the purposes of this Act, and every person who is thus classified as a white person shall similarly be deemed to be a white person, until the contrary is proved.

3. (1) The provisions of section four, sub-sections (1), (2) and (4) of section six, and, in so far as they are applicable to non-Europeans, the provisions of Chapter II of the principal Act shall apply, mutatis mutandis, for the purpose of the compilation and keeping of the Cape Coloured voters’ list.

(2) Any regulations made under the principal Act in regard to the registration of non-European voters in the province of the Cape of Good Hope, and in regard to all matters incidental thereto, shall continue to apply as if the said regulations related