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 Parliament
 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 excludes
 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.