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concerned under paragraph (a) of sub-section (9), apply to any court of competent jurisdiction, within a period of one month after he has been notified in writing by the auditor concerned of the surcharge, or within such further period as the court may allow, for an order setting aside or reducing the surcharge, and such court may on any such application, if not satisfied by that auditor on the merits of the case that the surcharge was rightly imposed, or as to the correctness of the amount thereof, make an order setting aside the surcharge or reducing it, as the case may be.”.

(2) Any surcharge raised or recovered prior to the commencement of this Act under regulation 20, 21 or 23 of the regulations published by Government Notice No. 782 of 1911 shall be deemed to have been duly raised or recovered in terms of section ninety-two of the principal Act as amended by this section.

4. This Act shall be called the South Africa Act Further Amendment Act, 1959.

To amend the South Africa Act, 1909, and to repeal the Offices of Profit Act, 1943.

(English text signed by the Governor-General.) (Assented to 19th June, 1959.)

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

1. Section fifty-three of the South Africa Act, 1909, is hereby amended by the addition to paragraph (d) of the following sub-paragraph: “(6) any member of any council, committee, board or similar body established by or under any law, who receives no payment in respect of his services on such council, committee, board or body in excess of an allowance at the rate of five guineas for each day on which he renders such services, together with the reimbursement of any travelling expenses incurred by him in the course of such services.”.

2. The Offices of Profit Amendment Act, 1943, and section fourteen of the Public Health Amendment Act, 1946 (Act No. 51 of 1946), are hereby repealed.

3. This Act shall be called the Offices of Profit Amendment Act, 1959.