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

Chapter XI : Discipline, Legal Procedure and Offences

117. Use of name, title, etc indicating connection with force

 

 

(1) No organization, association or other body of persons, corporate or unincorporate, shall, without the approval of the Minister, take, use or in any manner whatever publish any name, title, description or symbol indicating or purporting to indicate or calculated or likely to lead persons to infer that it has been established under or in pursuance of any provision of this Act or in or by the South African Defence Force or any headquarters, arm of the service, formation, unit or personnel mustering therein or that it is in any manner connected or associated with such force, headquarters, arm, formation, unit or personnel mustering if it has not been so established or is not so connected or associated.

[Subsection (1) substituted by section 14 of Act No. 34 of 1983]

 

(2) Any approval granted under sub-section (1) may in the discretion of the Minister be withdrawn by notice sent by registered post to the chairman, secretary or other executive officer of the organization, association or body concerned as from a date specified in such notice which shall not be earlier than three months after the date of the notice.

 


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