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List of acts of the Parliament of South Africa, 1930–1939

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ6560548 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of acts of the Parliament of South Africa enacted in the years 1930 to 1939.

South African acts are uniquely identified by the year of passage and an act number within that year. Some acts have gone by more than one short title in the course of their existence; in such cases each title is listed with the years in which it applied.

1930

1931

1932

1933

1934

1935

1936

1937

1938

1939

References

Government Gazette of the Union of South Africa, Volumes LXXIX–CXVII.

"National Primary Legislation". South African Legislation Resources. LegalB. Retrieved 8 September 2011.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “List of acts of the Parliament of South Africa, 1930–1939” is wikimedia list article. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through List, acts and Parliament, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1930, 1939, 1931, 1932—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, acts and Parliament is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “wikimedia list article” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6560548. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1930, 1939, 1931 and 1932.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of acts of the Parliament of South Africa, 1930–1939” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.