In this novel, for example, we meet the supposedly obdurate Afrikaner who contravenes the infamous Immorality Act.

Immorality Act was the title of two acts of the Parliament of South Africa which prohibited, amongst other things, sexual relations between white people and people of other races.

The first Immorality Act, of 1927, prohibited sex between whites and blacks, until amended in 1950 to prohibit sex between whites and all non-whites.

The second Immorality Act, of 1957, continued this prohibition and also dealt with many other sex offences.

The Immorality Act, 1927 ( Act No. 5 of 1927 ) prohibited sexual intercourse outside of marriage between " Europeans " ( white people ) and " natives " ( black people ).

The Immorality Amendment Act, 1950 ( Act No. 21 of 1950 ) amended the 1927 act to forbid unmarried sexual intercourse between " Europeans " and anyone not " European ".

The Immorality Act, 1957 ( Act No. 23 of 1957 ; subsequently renamed the Sexual Offences Act, 1957 ) repealed the 1927 and 1950 acts and replaced them with a clause prohibiting sexual intercourse or " immoral or indecent acts " between white people and anyone not white.

The Immorality Amendment Act, 1969 ( Act No. 57 of 1969 ) amended the 1957 act to introduce or expand a number of offences.

The Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act, 1985 ( Act No. 72 of 1985 ) repealed the provisions of the 1957 act that prohibited interracial sex, and repealed the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act.

The Immorality Amendment Act, 1988 ( Act No. 2 of 1988 ) renamed the Immorality Act, 1957 to the Sexual Offences Act, 1957.

When he married a French woman of Vietnamese ancestry, Yolande, he was not allowed to return: The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act ( 1949 ) and The Immorality Act ( 1950 ) made it a criminal offence for a white person to have any sexual relations with a person of a different race.

Subsequent legislation, especially the Population Registration and Immorality Acts of 1950, facilitated its implementation by requiring all individuals living in South Africa to register as a member of one of four officially defined racial groups and prohibiting extramarital sexual relationships between people of different races.

With the enactment of the Immorality Amendment Act of 1950, it also became a crime for a white person and a person of another race to have sexual intercourse.

Under the Immorality Amendment Act, No 21 of 1950, people of mixed races could not reside together, which made it possible for the government to segregate the different races.

* In his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, clergyman Jeremy Collier attaks leading contemporary dramatists ( William Congreve and Sir John Vanbrugh most prominently, but also John Dryden, Thomas d ' Urfey, and William Wycherley ) for moral shortcomings in their works.

The 1903 Immorality Suppression Ordinance made " illicit " ( i. e. unmarried ) sex between black men and white women illegal – with a penalty of two years imprisonment for any offending white woman.

The Relapse is singled out for particular censure in the Puritan clergyman Jeremy Collier's anti-theatre pamphlet Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage ( 1698 ), which attacks its lack of poetic justice and moral sentiment.

* 4 — In South Africa, the Immorality Amendment Act, 1988 imposes an age of consent of 19 for lesbian sex, which had previously been unregulated by the law.

* Richard Long ( MP 1694 ) ( 1668 – 1730 ), Whig MP for Chippenham, Wiltshire ; supporter of the Immorality Bill ; sheriff of Wiltshire ( 1702 – 03 )

Maybe the most obvious sign of Restoration theatre ’ s death came with the nolle prosequi ( immunity from prosecution for earlier offenses ) granted to Collier by William III ( for A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage ) ( Cordner 210 ).

During a photo-shoot for Drum magazine at a mine dump, Dolly and the white photographer, Jürgen Schadeberg were arrested under the Immorality Act, which forbade interracial relationships.

All laws in Judaism can be temporarily broken, to save a life ( excluding 3: Idolatry, Murder and Sexual Immorality ) the exceptions, where you must be willing to die, are learned by the Talmudic Rabbis from various locations in the Torah ( see Daniel Chapter 1 for instance ).

* 12 March – The Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk ( NGK ) together with its sister church for Blacks ( the NGK in Afrika ), Coloureds ( the NG Sendingkerk ) and Indians ( the Reformed Church in Africa ) issue a statement stating that the Churches bring no objection in principle if the authorities judge that circumstances justify reconsideration of the Immorality Act and the Mixed Marriages Act.

A report in The Whitehall Evening Post, claims that Lord Townshend was responsible for having Edmund Curll arrested in 1725 because he published " obscene Books and Pamphlets, tending to encourage Vice and Immorality ".

" Immorality is the active opposition to morality ( i. e. opposition to that which is good or right ), while amorality is variously defined as an unawareness of, indifference toward, or disbelief in any set of moral standards or principles.

Beginning his term with a " Proclamation against Vice and Immorality ," he sought ways to bring an end to the disorder of the days of the Revolution.

Before A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, most anti-theatre pamphlets were merely nondescript diatribes ( e. g. William Prynne ’ s Histriomastix ( 1633 )), but with his innovative techniques, Collier comprehensively indicted the entire Restoration stage ( Cordner 215 ).

A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage is often credited with turning the tide against the sexually explicit nature of Restoration comedy, but the tide had already begun turn ; Collier ’ s pamphlet was only “ swimming ” with the “ tide ” of public opinion ( Cordner 210 ).

* Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act ( co-authored with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona )

The group's only previous contact with other parties had been in 1985 when it briefly co-operated with the Conservative Party to oppose the repeal of the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act and the Immorality Amendment Act by P. W.

The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome.

He was attacked on both counts, and was one of the prime targets of Jeremy Collier's Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage.

Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934.

Immorality, then, is simply and deeply irrational.

less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, by which the national government assumed the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of July 3, 1952 ( 66 Stat. 328 ) as amended ( 42 U.S.C. 1952-1958 ), is further amended to read as follows: Section 1.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a program of stabilization payments to small domestic producers of lead and zinc ores and concentrates in order to stabilize the mining of lead and zinc by small domestic producers on public, Indian, and other lands as provided in this Act.

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ( ADA ) is a law that was enacted by the U. S. Congress in 1990.

In response to the rapid creation of new independent agencies in the early twentieth century ( see discussion below ), Congress enacted the Administrative Procedure Act ( APA ) in 1946.

In a July 2, 2011 editorial the New York Times opined, " The Defense of Marriage Act was enacted in 1996 as an election-year wedge issue, signed by President Bill Clinton in one of his worst policy moments.

The current law in force was enacted in 1920 called Provincial Insolvency Act.

In 1989 the United States enacted the Berne Convention Implementation Act, amending the 1976 Copyright Act to conform to most of the provisions of the Berne Convention.

A Married Women ( Restraint Upon Anticipation ) Act was passed in 1949 “ to equalise, to render inoperative any restrictions upon anticipation or alienation attached to the enjoyment of property by a woman ,” while the Married Women ( Maintenance ) Act of 1949 was enacted with the intention of improving the adequacy and duration of financial benefits for married women.

On November 1, 2005, Germany enacted the “ Act on Model Case Proceedings in Disputes under Capital Markets Law ( Capital Markets Model Case Act )” allowing sample proceedings to be brought before the courts in litigation arising from mass capital markets transactions.

In 1982, a radical liberalization of the law on cable was proposed by the Information Technology Advisory Panel, for the sake of promoting a new generation of broadband cable systems leading to the wired society After setting up and receiving the conclusions of the Hunt Inquiry into Cable Expansion and Broadcasting Policy, the Government decided to proceed with liberalization and two pieces of legislation: the Cable and Broadcasting Act and the Telecommunications Act, were enacted in 1984.

The Controlled Substances Act ( CSA ) was enacted into law by the Congress of the United States as Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970.

The Emergency Conservation Work ( ECW ) Act was introduced to Congress the same day and enacted by voice vote on the 31st.

* 1980 – The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, also known as CERCLA or Superfund, is enacted by the U. S. Congress.

The National Environmental Policy Act ( 1969 ), the Clean Air Act ( 1970 ), the Clean Water Act ( 1972 ), and the Endangered Species Act ( 1973 ) all were enacted with broad bipartisan support, and ultimately signed into law by Republican President Richard Nixon.

The Federal Banking Agency Audit Act, enacted in 1978 as Public Law 95-320 and 31 U. S. C.

To fill in any potential federal gaps, Congress has enacted the Assimilative Crimes Act (), which provides that any act that would have been a crime under the laws of the state in which a federal enclave is situated is also a federal crime.