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To give force of law to the Separate Representation of Voters Act, 1951, to define the jurisdiction of courts of law to pronounce upon the validity of laws passed by Parliament, and to amend the South Africa Act, 1909.

E IT ENACTED by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, in accordance with the requirements of section one hundred and fifty-two of the South Africa Act, 1909, as follows:―

1. The Separate Representation of Voters Act, 1951 (Act No. 46 of 1951), published under Government Notice No. 1498 of the eighteenth day of June, 1951, shall have the force of law with effect from the date of commencement of this Act, which date shall for all purposes be deemed to be the date of commencement of the firstmentioned Act.

2. No court of law shall be competent to enquire into or to pronounce upon the validity of any law passed by Parliament other than a law which alters or repeals or purports to alter or repeal the provisions of section one hundred and thirty-seven or one hundred and fifty-two of the South Africa Act, 1909.

3. Section thirty-five of the South Africa Act, 1909, is hereby amended―

4. Section one hundred and fifty-two of the South Africa Act, 1909, is hereby amended by the deletion in the proviso thereto of the words “that no provision thereof, for the operation of