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Defence Act, 1957 (Act No. 44 of 1957)

Chapter IX : Administration and General Powers of the State President, the Minister and Officers

88. Protection of defence stores

 

 

(1) The Minister or any person acting under his authority may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, designate a mark or marks to be applied to animals or articles to denote the ownership of the Republic or of any visiting force in those animals or articles.

[Subsection (1) substituted by section 10 of Act No. 3 of 1969]

 

(2) Any person who, without lawful authority, the onus of the proof whereof shall be upon him, applies to any animal or article any such mark, or defaces or conceals any such mark on any animal or article or receives, possesses, sells or delivers any animal or article bearing any such mark or any animal or article which is forbidden under this Act to be sold, pledged or otherwise disposed of, shall be guilty of an offence.

 

(3) No animal or article the property of the Republic Government or of any visiting force, which bears any such mark or which is forbidden by or in pursuance of this Act to be sold, pledged or otherwise disposed of, shall be capable of being seized or attached by or under any writ of execution which may be sued out against any member of the South African Defence Force or any visiting force, nor shall ownership of such animal or article pass by or under any order made for the sequestration of the estate of any such member.