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79 of 1976
The Internal Security Amendment Act 79 of 1976 intends:
- to amend the Internal Security Act (previously Suppression of Communism Act), 1950 [repealed in 1991], so as:
- to make provision for declaring organizations promoting activities endangering the security or the State or the maintenance or public order to be unlawful and for prohibiting certain publications accordingly, and applying certain restrictions imposed by that Act, to persons engaging in such activities;
- to regulate the release on bail or othenvise or persons arrested for certain offences; and
- to provide for the detention of certain witnesses;
- to amend the Public Safety Act, 1953 [repealed in 1995], so as to extend the power to make regulations;
- to amend the Criminal Procedure Act, 1955, in regard to the release or arrested persons on bail or otherwise, and the detention of witnesses;
- to apply the Riotous Assemblies Act, 1956, to the territory of South West Africa; and
- to amend the Terrorism Act, 1967 [repealed in 1991], so as to delete the provisions as to the release on bail or otherwise or any person detained in custody on a charge of having committted an offence under that Act; and
- to provide for matters connected therewith.
Commencement
16 June 1976
