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Chief Justice of South Africa, or some other Judge of the Supreme 
Court of South Africa. 
IV. Every Governor-General, and every other officer appointed 
to administer the Government of the Union after the said first 
appointed Governor-General, shall take the oath of Allegiance and 
the Oath of Office in the forms provided by an Act passed in 
the Session holden in the thirty-first and thirty-second years of the 
Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled ‘ An Act to 
amend the Law relating to Promissory Oaths’; which Oaths the 
Chief Justice of South Africa, or some other Judge of the Supreme 
Court of South Africa, shall and he is hereby required to tender and 
administer unto him or them. 
V. And We do authorize and require the Governor-General from 
time to time, by himself or by any other person to be authorized by 
him in that behalf, to administer to all and to every person or persons, 
as he shall think fit, who shall hold any office or place of trust or 
profit in the Union, the said Oath of Allegiance, together with such 
other Oath or Oaths as may from time to time be prescribed by any 
laws or statutes in that behalf made and provided. 
VI. And We do require the Governor-General to communicate 
forthwith to the Members of the Executive Council for the Union 
these Qur Instructions, and likewise all such others, from time to 
time, as he shall find convenient for Our service to be imparted to 
them. 
VII. The Governor-General shall not assent in Our name to any 
bill which We have specially instructed him through one of Our 
Principal Secretaries of State to reserve; and he shall take special 
care that he does not assent to any bill which he may be required 
under the South Africa Act, 1909, to reserve; and in particular he 
shall reserve any bill which disqualifies any person in the Province of 
the Cape of Good Hope, who, under the laws existing in the Colony 
of the Cape of Good Hope at the establishment of the Union, is, or 
may become, capable of being registered as a voter, from being so 
registered in the Province of the Cape of Good Hope by reason of his 
race or colour only. 
VIII. The Governor-General is to take care that all laws assented 
bo by him in Our name, or reserved for the signification of Our 
pleasure thereon, shall, when transmitted by him, be fairly abstracted 
in the margins, and be accompanied, in such cases as may seem to him 
necessary, with such explanatory observations as may be required 
to exhibit the reasons and occasions for proposing such laws; and 
he shall also transmit fair copies of the Journals and Minutes of the 
proceedings of the Parliament of the Union, which he is to require 
from the clerks, or other proper officers in that behalf. of the said 
Parliament. 
IX. And We do further authorize and empower the Governor 
General, as he shall see occasion, in Our name and on Our behalf, 
when any crime or offence against the laws of the Union has been 
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