Definition:
The Identification Act No 72 of 1986 (commenced 1 July) repealed the Blacks (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act No 67 of 1952 and amended parts of the Population Registration Act No 30 of 1950 such that Identification Numbers no longer reflected a person's racial group
Amended by the Identification Amendment Act No 47 of 1995 (which created a new, supposedly non-racial, population register).
