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Act, professed to be a communist, to resign as a member of either House of Parliament or a provincial council or the Legislative Assembly of the said territory except after consideration of a report, in the case of a Senator, of a committee of the Senate and, in the case of a member of the House of Assembly or a provincial council or the Legislative Assembly of the said territory, of a committee of the House of Assembly.

(2) The Minister may at any time in like manner withdraw or vary any notice under sub-section (1).

(3) The Minister shall not exercise the powers conferred upon him by paragraph (a) or (b) of sub-section (1) in relation to a person who is an office-bearer, officer or member of an employers’ organization or trade union registered under the Industrial Conciliation Act, 1937 (Act No. 36 of 1937), nor require any person in terms of paragraph (c) of the said sub-section not to become an office-bearer, officer or member and not to take part in the activities of such an employers’ organization or trade union, except after consultation with the Minister of Labour.

(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in any instrument, rule or agreement governing the relations between any organization and any office-bearer, officer or member thereof who has under sub-section (1) been required to resign, such office-bearer, officer or member may by resignation terminate his relationship with such organization as from the date of the resignation.

(5) Nothing in this section contained shall derogate from the provisions of sub-section (3) of section sixty-eight or section one-hundred-and-one of the South Africa Act, 1909.

6. If the Governor-General is satisfied that any periodical or other publication—

professes, by its name or otherwise, to be a publication for propagating the principles or promoting the spread of communism; or

is published or disseminated by or under the direction or guidance of an organization which has been declared an unlawful organization by or under section two, or was published or disseminated by or under the direction or guidance of any such organization immediately prior to the date upon which it became an unlawful organization; or

serves mainly as a means for expressing views propagated by any such organization, or did so serve immediately prior to the said date; or

serves mainly as a means for expressing views or conveying information, the publication of which is calculated to further the achievement of any of the objects of communism,

he may, without notice to any person concerned, by proclamation in the Gazette prohibit the printing, publication or dissemination of such periodical publication or the dissemination