CHAPTER 14:04
GENERAL LAW (CAPE STATUTES) REVISION

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

    1.    Short title

    2.    Application of certain Cape Statutes to Botswana to be discontinued

    3.    Saving

    4.    Extent of continuance

Proc. 2, 1959,
Cap. 36, 1959,
L.N. 84, 1966.

An Act to provide that certain laws of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope which are in force in Botswana but are obsolete, or otherwise unnecessary in the circumstances of Botswana, should no longer be in force therein.

[Date of Commencement: 1st January, 1959]

1.    Short title

    This Act may be cited as the General Law (Cape Statutes) Revision Act.

2.    Application of certain Cape Statutes to Botswana to be discontinued

    All laws enacted by the legislative authority of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, in force in Botswana by virtue of the provisions of the General Law Proclamation, 1909, other than—

    (a)    laws which, notwithstanding that they may have been made before the 10th day of June, 1891, have been applied to Botswana, or to anything in Botswana, by some other law; and

    (b)    the laws specified in the Schedule (to the extent set out in the third column thereof),

shall from the commencement of this Act no longer be in force in Botswana.