Section 6: Support
consolidated text (as at 2018, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
6. Support
(1) Any person who, in any manner or form—
(a) solicits support for, or tenders support in relation to, an act of
terrorism, or
(b) solicits support for, or tenders support to, a proscribed
organisation or a person declared to be a suspected international
terrorist under section 10 (1),
shall commit an offence.
(2) A police officer, not below the rank of Superintendent of Police, or
duly authorised by a Superintendent of Police, may, without warrant, arrest a
person who, in a public place—
(a) wears an item of clothing; or
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(b) carries or displays an object,
in such a way or in such circumstances as to arouse reasonable suspicion
that he belongs to a proscribed organisation.
(3) Where a person is arrested under subsection (2), he shall be brought
without undue delay before a Court.
(4) In subsection (1)—
“support” includes—
(a) instigation to the cause of terrorism;
(b) (i) offer of material assistance, weapons including biological,
chemical or nuclear weapons, explosives, training, transportation, false documentation or identification;
(ii) offer or provision of moral assistance, including invitation
to adhere to a proscribed organisation;
(c) the provision of, or making available, such financial or other related services as may be prescribed.
[S. 6 amended by s. 7 of Act 27 of 2016 w.e.f. 9 January 2017; s. 55 of Act 11 of 2018
w.e.f. 9 August 2018.]