Internal Security Act, 1982

The Internal Security Act (. Act No. 74 of 1982), German as: " Internal Security Act ", also Act to Provide for the security of the State and the maintenance of law and order; and to Provide for matters connected there with (such as "Law for the provision of national security and the maintenance of law and order, and the provision of related matters " ) was a key element of the legislation in the apartheid era.

History

The law was adopted on 1 June 1982 by the South African National Assembly and entered into force on 2 July 1982.

It replaced several earlier laws on internal security, including the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950, parts of the Riotous Assemblies Act of 1956, the Unlawful Organisations Act of 1960, the Terrorism Act of 1967 and the Internal Security Amendment Act (Act No.. 79 of 1976). There was the apartheid government to ban over to increase it far -reaching opportunities, organizations, publications, and meetings or restrict persons and to detain people without trial. The law was enacted as a result of the final report of the Rabie Commission, whose task had been in the study of existing safety laws.

Content

Section (Section ) 5 was the spell of publications. Sections 16 and 17 saw before the listing of persons who therefore no parliamentary positions of authority, not to operate in the case law and were not allowed to be quoted. Sections 18 to 27 concern ban order against individuals. Section 28 of the Act dealt with the indefinite " preventive " detention. Section 29 of the saw the possibility of indefinite detention for the purpose of interrogation before - even in solitary confinement - Section 31 the detention of potential witnesses. Sections 46 to 53 treated ban order for meetings.

Section 54 referred to " terrorism ", Section 73 allowed the spell of organizations. In 1986 the Act was amended by the Internal Security Amendment Act (Act No. 66 of 1986), which allowed imprisonment up to 180 days without ministerial approval.

The four formally independent homelands Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei had their own security laws, largely in line with South African provisions.

Abolition

Most provisions of the Internal Security Act were replaced between 1991 and 1993 by other laws, such as the Internal Security and Intimidation Amendment Act of 1991, the Abolition of Restrictions on Free Political Activity Act and the Regulation of Gatherings Act, both of 1993, and the Security Matters rationalization Act of 1996. 2004 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy against terrorist and Related Activities Act recently been adopted and entered into force on 20 May 2005.