Second Coloured Persons Education Amendment Act 95 of 1976

Second Coloured Persons Education Amendment Act, 1976 (No. 95 of 1976)

Act

• to amend the provisions of the Coloured Persons Education Act, 1963, so as to provide for the continued provision of education to certain Coloured persons; and
• to provide for incidental matters.

(English text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 18 June 1976.)

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

Amendment of sectlon 1 of Act 47 of 1963, as amended by section 1 of Act 76 of 1967 and section 1 of  Act 53 of 1973.

1. Section 1 of the Coloured Persons Education Act, 1963,  is hereby amended-

(a) by the substitution in subsection (1) for the definition of "Coloured person" of the following definition:
"'Coloured person' means a person classified under the Population Registration Act, 1950 (Act No. 30 of 1950), as a member of the Cape Coloured, Malay, Griqua or Other Coloured Group and includes any South Mrican citizen having his home in an independent State and who would have been so classified had the provisions of the Population Registration Act, 1950, been applicable to him;";
and 

(b) by the insertion in subsection (1) after the definition of "home" of the following definition:
"'independent State' means a territory which formed part of the Republic and became an independent State in terms of an Act of Parliament;";

Short title and commencement.

2. This Act shall be called the Second Coloured Persons Education Amendment Act, 1976, and shall come into operation on the date of commencement of the Status of the Transkei Act, 1976.

Commencement

26 October 1976