Standing Orders 1965: The Senate, Standing Orders Relating to Public Business (Ex Bozas, Defective Copy) by Senate of the Republic of South Africa

The Standing Orders 1965 of the Senate of the Republic of South Africa: Standing Orders Relating to Public Business, issued by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa and printed by Cape & Transvaal Printers, Cape Town.

Bound in red grained boards, the upper board lettered in gilt within a ruled panel, with rounded corners and a printed thumb index cut into the fore-edge.

The Standing Orders 1965 set out the rules of the Senate, from the proceedings at the meeting of a new Senate and the election of the President to sittings, bills, committees, debate, order, divisions and communications with the House of Assembly.

Marginal notes and footnotes in the Standing Orders 1965 record amendments back to 1920.

This copy carries the Senate’s printed amendment and substitution slips, pasted over the relevant Standing Orders, recording changes adopted on 19 May 1967 and 4 February 1969. The years 1966 to 1969 are noted in ink on the front pastedown.

From the library of Senator Achilles Bozas of Empangeni, Zululand historian and collector, with his bookplate. The front free endpaper also bears a signature in red crayon, which we have not been able to identify.

This is an affordable copy of the Standing Orders 1965 for anyone interested in South African parliamentary procedure and the pre-1980 Senate. A complete copy with Bozas’s compliments slip is listed separately.

Condition – Fair

Please note: pages 33 to 36 have been crudely cut out, leaving stubs in the gutter, so the text of those pages is missing.

Otherwise the red grained boards of this Standing Orders 1965 are clean and square, the gilt bright, and the binding firm. Foxing and light damp staining to the endpapers and preliminaries, with scattered foxing through the text.

The Standing Orders 1965 thumb-index tabs are intact. Amendment slips pasted in as issued. Bookplate and red crayon signature to the front free endpaper; ink dates to the front pastedown.