Defence Act, 1957 (Act No. 44 of 1957)

Chapter VIII : Registration and Selection of Persons for Allotment to Citizen Force, Commandos, South African Police or South African Railways Police Force

66B. Ballot
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(1)As soon as possible after the final preparation of the ballot lists, the registering officer shall take a ballot of the citizens whose names appear on those lists, to select the number of citizens contemplated in section 66A(2).

 

(2)The procedure and rules for the taking of the ballot shall be determined by the Minister by notice in the Gazette, but the names on the ballot lists shall be selected singly and the percentage of names selected from each list shall as nearly as possible be the same.

 

(3)A percentage of names from time to time selected by the Minister in excess of the said number, shall, as may be required, be selected by a simultaneous ballot in order to make good any loss caused or likely to be caused by reason of the fact that persons selected by ballot may subsequently not report for service or not obtain a senior certificate or be found medically unfit or otherwise unsuitable for military training, or by reason of the fact that any person so selected may be granted deferment or exemption from training by an exemption board or for any other reason, and any good any such loss, shall be deemed to have been selected under subsection (1).

 

(4)Every citizen whose name has been selected by ballot in pursuance of this section, shall attend and submit to medical examination at a time, date and place of which he has been informed in writing, and such examination shall take place at public expense.

 

(5)The selection by ballot of the name of any person under this section and his allotment in terms of section 67 to the Citizen Force shall lapse if he does not obtain a senior certificate in the year in respect of which such ballot was taken.

 

(6)The taking of any ballot under this section may be accomplished by using an electronic computer.

 

[Section 66B inserted by section 31 of Act No. 134 of 1993]