ABSTRACT
The applicants for registration must surrender their old permits to the Registrar, and state in their application their name, residence, caste, age. The Registrar was to note down important marks of identification upon the applicant’s person, and take his finger and thumb impressions. Every Indian who failed to apply for registration before a certain day was to forfeit his right of residence in the Transvaal. The certificate of registration issued to an applicant must be produced before any police officer whenever he might be required to do so. If an Indian wanted any Government officer to perform any service, the officer could ask to see his certificate of registration before granting his request. A trader with assets running into lakhs could be deported under the new Ordinance and thus confronted with utter ruin in a moment. The giving of finger-prints, required by this Ordinance, was quite a novelty in South Africa.
