1068 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V 
of native affairs throughout the Union shall vest in the 
Governor-General in Council, who shall exercise all special 
powers in regard to native administration hitherto vested in 
the Governors of the Colonies, or exercised by them as 
Supreme Chiefs, and any lands vested in the Governor or 
Governor in Executive Council of any Colony for the purpose 
of reserves for native locations shall vest in the Governor- 
General in Council, who shall exercise all special powers in 
relation to such reserves as may have hitherto been exercised 
by any such Governor or Governor in Executive Council, 
and no lands set aside for the occupation of natives which 
cannot at the establishment of the Union be alienated, except 
by an Act of the Colonial Legislature, shall be alienated, or in 
any way diverted from the purposes for which they are set 
apart except under the authority of an Act of Parliament. 
The position, however, is quite different with regard to the 
eventual transfer of the territories now under the protection 
of the Crown or in the possession of the Crown in South 
Africa.> In that case, under the Schedule to the South Africa 
Act, the Governor-General in Council is to be the legislative 
authority, and may by proclamation make laws for the 
good government of each territory ; provided that all such 
laws shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within 
seven days after the issue of the Proclamation, or, if Parlia- 
ment is not in session, within seven days after the beginning 
of the next session. Such laws will cease to have effect 
if both Houses of Parliament by resolution request the 
Governor-General in Council to repeal them ; in which 
case the repeal will be carried out by proclamation. 
Moreover, His Majesty may disallow any law made by 
the Governor-General in Council by proclamation for any 
* For the franchise question, see Part IV, chap. iii. Act No. 23 of 1911 
of the Union unites the branches of the Dutch Reformed Church, but ex- 
cludes native members in the Cape from equality in the other provinces. 
* Namely, the Bechuanaland Protectorate, Swaziland, a Protectorate 
taken over from the Transvaal on the conquest of that country, and the 
Colony of Basutoland, disannexed from the Cape in 1883, For all these 
the Crown now legislates by Order in Council, and the High Commissioner 
tor South Africa legislates by proclamation ; see Parl. Payp., H. C. 130. 1905.