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The Witchcraft Suppression Act 3 of 1957 is an act of the Parliament of South Africa that prohibits various activities related to witchcraft, witch smelling or witch-hunting. It is based on the Witchcraft Suppression Act 1895 of the Cape Colony, which was in turn based on the Witchcraft Act 1735 of the United Kingdom. the constitutional validity of the act is under review by the South African Law Reform Commission.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Current Investigations: Progress Report )〕 ==Provisions== The act criminalises a number of actions. The following two crimes, the most serious under the act, attract a fine of up to R400,000 or imprisonment for up to 10 years.〔Witchcraft Suppression Act 3 of 1957, s. 1(ii). Corporal punishment was removed by the Abolition of Corporal Punishment Act 33 of 1997, and the maximum fine fixed by the Adjustment of Fines Act 101 of 1991.〕 * Imputing to any other person the causing, by supernatural means, of any disease in or injury or damage to any person or thing, or naming or indicating any other person as a wizard.〔(Witchcraft Suppression Act 3 of 1957 ), s. 1(a).〕 * In circumstances indicating that the accused professes or pretends to use any supernatural power, witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration, imputing the cause of death of, injury or grief to, disease in, damage to or disappearance of any person or thing to any other person.〔Witchcraft Suppression Act 3 of 1957, s. 1(b). Added by the Witchcraft Suppression Amendment Act 50 of 1970.〕 If the person in question was killed as a consequence, or if the accused is by habit or repute a witch-finder, the sentence is increased to imprisonment for up to 20 years,〔Witchcraft Suppression Act 3 of 1957, s. 1(i).〕 and in that case the offence is presumed to have caused the killing unless proven otherwise.〔Witchcraft Suppression Act 3 of 1957, s. 2.〕 The following three crimes attract a fine of up to R200,000 or imprisonment for up to five years or both.〔Witchcraft Suppression Act 3 of 1957, s. 1(iii). The maximum fine was increased by the Adjustment of Fines Act 101 of 1991.〕 * Employing or soliciting any witchdoctor, witch-finder or any other person to name or indicate any person as a wizard.〔Witchcraft Suppression Act 3 of 1957, s. 1(c).〕 * Professing a knowledge of witchcraft, or the use of charms, and advising any person how to bewitch, injure or damage any person or thing, or supplying any person with any pretended means of witchcraft.〔Witchcraft Suppression Act 3 of 1957, s. 1(d).〕 * On the advice of any witchdoctor, witch-finder or other person or on the ground of any pretended knowledge of witchcraft, using or causing to be put into operation any means or process which, in accordance with such advice or the accused's own belief, is calculated to injure or damage any person or thing.〔Witchcraft Suppression Act 3 of 1957, s. 1(e).〕 The following crime attracts a fine of up to R80,000 or imprisonment for up to two years.〔Witchcraft Suppression Act 3 of 1957, s. 1(iv). The maximum fine was increased by the Adjustment of Fines Act 101 of 1991.〕 * For gain pretending to exercise or use any supernatural power, witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration, or undertaking to tell fortunes, or pretending from skill in or knowledge of any occult science to discover where and in what manner anything supposed to have been stolen or lost may be found.〔Witchcraft Suppression Act 3 of 1957, s. 1(f).〕 The act also repealed the various witchcraft laws inherited from the colonies from which South Africa was formed.〔Witchcraft Suppression Act 3 of 1957, s. 3.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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