Rex v Chong Sam [1915] ZATPD 70 (6 September 1915)

Mines and minerals.- Gold Law.-Stands outside townships -Letting to colound persons.-Act 35 of 1908, secs. 77, 130 and 131.

Section 77 of Act 35 of 1908 provides that the rights and obligations attaching at the commencement of that Act to a stand outside a township and acquired under previous Gold Laws shall remain in force as if that Act had not been passed. Held, that such a stand could be let to and occupied, by coloured persons for residential purposes and tha.t the restrictions in sec. 130 and 131.
of that Act did not apply to such a stand. R. v. Tamblin, (1911, T. P. D. 772) applied.