Long title

To declare the unlawful appropriation or the use of another's properly an offence, to amend the law relating to the formalities of certain contracts, to amend Law No. 22 or 1863 (Natal), Law No. 14 of 1882 (Natal), Law No. 12 of 1884 (Natal), the Masters and (Natal) Servants Act, 1894 (Natal), the Transfer Duty Proclamation, 1902 (Transvaal), the Transfer Duty Ordinance, 1906 (Orange Free State), the South Africa Act, 1909, the Prisons and Reformatories Act, 1911, the Companies Act, 1926, the Administration or Justice (Further Amendment) Act, 1927, the Insolvency Act, 1936, the Deeds Registries Act, 1937, the Prescription Act, 1943, the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1944, the Second-hand Goods Act, 1955 and the Criminal Procedure Act, 1955

Table of contents

SECTION	TITLE
1.	Unlawful appropriation of the use of another's property is an offence
2.	Formalities in respect of leases of land
3.	Formalities in respect of leases of rights to minerals
4.	Lease includes a sub-lease
5.	Formalities in respect of donations
6.	Formalities in respect of contacts of suretyship
7.	Amendment of section 97 of the South Africa Act, 1909 as substituted by section 1 of Act 41 of 1940
8.	Amendment of section 112 of the South Africa Act, 1909
9.	Amemdnemnt of section 48 of Act 13 of 1911
10.	Amendment of section 219 of Act 46 of 1926 as amended bt section 126 of At 46 of 1952
11.	Amendment of section 19 of Act 24 of 1936
12.	Amendment of section 63 of Act 24 of 1936
13.	Insertion of section 158bis in Act 24 of 1936
14.	Amendment of section 3 of Act 47 of 1937
15.	Repeal of section 89 of Act 47 of 1937
16.	Amendment of section 3 of Act 18 of 1943, as amended by section 27 of Act 46 of 1945 and section 23 of Act 52 of 1955
17.	Amendent of section 9 of Act 32 of 1944 as amended by secton 8 of Act 40 of 1952
18.	Amendment of section 21 of Act 32 of 1944
19.	Amendment of section 25 of Act 32 of 1944
20.	Amendment of section 65 of Act 32 of 1944 as substutited byt section 15 of Act 40 of 1952 and amended by section 1 of Act 14 of 1954
21.	Amendment of section 1 of Act 23 of 1955
22.	Amendment of section 1 of Act 56 of 1955
23.	Amendment of section 70 of Act 56 of 1955
24.	Amendment of section 87 of Act 56 of 1955
25.	Insertion of section 99bis in Act 56 of 1955
26.	Amendment of section 111 of Act 56 of 1955
27.	Amendment of section 112 of Act 56 of 1955
28.	Amendment of section 289 of Act 56 of 1955
29.	Amendment of section 309 of Act 56 of 1955
30.	Amendment of section 375 of Act 56 of 1955
31.	Amendment of Part II of Third Schedule to Act 56 of 1955
32.	Repeal of laws
33.	Short title
Sch.	SCHEDULE. [sic - no title] [s32]

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