{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/south-africa-act-1962/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/south-africa-act-1962/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/23",
  "legislation_title": "South Africa Act 1962",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/south-africa-act-1962",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation etc.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act “the Republic” means the Republic of South Africa; and references to the Republic, in relation to any time before the thirty-first day of May, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, include references to the Union of South Africa.\n(2) Any reference in this Act to an enactment is a reference thereto as amended, and includes a reference thereto as extended or applied, by or under any other enactment; and any such reference to any enactment which extends to the Isle of Man, any of the Channel Islands or any colony or other territory, includes a reference thereto as it so extends.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 3(3) repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 6 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/23/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:05:30.346693+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}