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9. Section sixty-seven of the South Africa Act is hereby amended by the deletion of the words “or having been reserved for the King’s pleasure shall have received his assent”.

10. Nothing in this Act contained shall affect the provisions of section one hundred and six of the South Africa Act, relating to an appeal to the King-in-Council, or the provisions of sections one hundred and fifty and one hundred and fifty-one of the said Act.

11. (1) Sections eight and sixty-six of the South Africa Act are hereby repealed.

(2) Section sixty-five shall be repealed as from a date to be fixed by the Governor-General by proclamation in the Gazette.

12. This Act shall be known as the Status of the Union Act, 1934.

Schedule.

STATUTE OF WESTMINSTER, 1931. (22. Geo. 5. Chap. 4.)

WHEREAS the delegates of His Majesty’s Governments in the United Kingdom, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State and Newfoundland, at Imperial Conferences holden at Westminster in the years of our Lord 1926 and 1930, did concur in making the declarations and resolutions set forth in the Reports of the said Conferences:

it is meet and proper to set out by way of preamble to this Act that, inasmuch as the Crown is the symbol of the free association of the members of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and as they are united by a common allegiance to the Crown, it would be in accord with the established constitutional position of all the members of the Commonwealth in relation to one another that any alteration in the law touching the Succession to the Throne or the Royal Style and Titles shall hereafter require the assent as well of the Parliaments of all the Dominions as of the Parliament of the United Kingdom:

it is in accord with the established constitutional position that no law hereafter made by the Parliament of the United Kingdom shall extend to any of the said Dominions as part of the law of that Dominion otherwise than at the request and with the consent of that Dominion:

it is necessary for the ratifying, confirming and establishing of certain of the said declarations and resolutions of the said Conferences that a law be made and enacted in due form by authority of the Parliament of the United Kingdom: