Coloured Persons Education Amendment Act 76 of 1967

The Coloured Persons Education Amendment Act 76 of 1967 intends:

to amend the Coloured Persons Education Act, 1963,

• to provide for the granting of financial aid to private hostels attached to State schools, and
• for the retention of certain benefits by certain persons transferred to the service of the Department of Coloured Affairs or deemed to have been appointed under the provisions of the said Act.

(Afrikaans text signed by the Acting State President.)
(Assented to 7th June, 1967.)

Be it enacted by the State President, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-

Amendment of section 1 of Act 47 of 1963.

1. Section 1 of the Coloured Persons Education Act, 1963 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), is hereby amended- 

(a) by the substitution for the definition of "governing body" of the following definition:
" 'governing body', in relation to any college, school, home, class or hostel, means the person managing such college, school, home. class or hostel;"; and

(b) by the insertion after the definition of "special school" of the following definition:
" 'State-aided hostel' means a hostel in respect of which grants-in-aid are made in terms of section 4 or in respect of which a loan was granted in terms of that section;''.

Amendment of section 4 of Act 47 of 1963.

2. Section 4 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsection:

"(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) the Minister may out of moneys appropriated by Parliament for the purpose, make grants-in-aid and loans to the governing body of any college, school, home or continuation classes for the education of Coloured persons, including any nursery school, or of any hostel for the accommodation of Coloured persons to whom education is provided.".

Amendment of S«.tlon 13 or Act 47 of 1963.

3. (1) Section 13 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the addition of the following subsection:

"(7) (a) If any person who is transferred to the service of the Department by virtue of the provisions of section 9 or is deemed to have been appointed to a post under the provisions of this Act, and who was not immediately prior to the commencement of this Act a member of or a contributor to a pension or provident fund which.is governed by a pension law administered by a provincial administration, for any reason retires or is retired or discharged from the service of the Department or from the public service, he shall, subject to the provisions of paragraph (b), be entitled to the benefit which would have been payable to him under that pension law if on the day immediately prior to the said commencement he had retired or had been retired or discharged for the same reason from the service of his previous employer.

(b) If such person so retires or is so retired or discharged by reason of the age he has attained, he shall for the purposes of such pension law be deemed to have attained the age prescribed for retirement by that pension !aw on the said day.

(c) H any person to whom the provisions of paragraph (a) apply, dies before his retirement or discharge from the service of the Department or the public service. there shall be paid the benefit which would have been payable in terms of the, appropriate pension law referred to in subsection (1) (b) if he had died on the day immediately prior to the commencement of this Act.

(d) A benefit payable in terms of this subsection, shall be paid from the revenue fund of the province concerned.".

(2) The amendments effected to the principal Act by subsection (1) shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January. 1964.

Amendment of section 34 of Act 47 of 1963.

4. Section 34 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of the following paragraph:

"(c) as to the making of grants-in-aid and loans to governing bodies of State-aided schools and State-aided hostels;".

Short title.

5. This Act shall be called the Coloured Persons Education Amendment Act, 1967.

Commencement

14 June 1967