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[Date of commencement―1st August, 1914.

To amend the South Africa Act, 1909.

(Assented to 1st June, 1933.) (Signed by the Governor-General in Afrikaans.)

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. The following new sub-section is hereby added to section fourteen of the South Africa Act, 1909, the existing section becoming sub-section (1): “(2) Whenever any Minister of State is from any cause whatever unable to perform any of the functions of his office, the Governor-General-in-Council may appoint any member of the Executive Council (whether he has or has not been appointed as a Minister of State, under sub-section (1)) to act in the said Minister’s stead, either generally or in the performance of any particular function”.

2. Section fifty-three of the South Africa Act, 1909, is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following new sub-paragraph at the end thereof: