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The Committee of Enquiry into the Abuse of Drugs in the Republic of South Africa was appointed on 25 July 1969 by the Minister of Social Welfare and Pensions, Or the Honourable C. P. Mulder. The Committee's Report, which was published in 1970, provides information which may be presented under the folloWing heads:1. Types of drugs most commonly abused in the Republic of South Africa and their effect upon the human organism.2. Consequences of drug abuse with special reference to the physical, psychological and social aspects thereof.3. Nature and extent of drug abuse.4. Causality of drug abuse and drug dependence.5. Measures for the prevention, suppression and management of the problem, with special reference to the medical, medico-social, medico-sociological and juridical aspects thereof.The respective merits of punitive, preventive and integrative justice are discussed. The main recommendations of the Committee were adopted by the Minister and embodied by him in the Bill which he presented to Parliament and which has now been incorporated in the Statute Book as the Abuse of Dependence-producing Substances and Rehabilitation CentresAct, 1971.S. Afr. Med. J., 45, 1327 (1971)

Taxes have a strategic role in the development effort of an
underdeveloped country. The reasons are simple. First, there is the need
to mobilize resources for the public sector. Second, voluntary savings
are far short of a minimum desirable size of investment programme; there
is thus need for increasing saving through taxes. And third, taxes
provide the safest means of finance for economic development as concerns
the inflationary effects of development spending. Furthermore, they
assume added significance in influencing the extent and direction of
private enterprise and in affecting the distribution of income. The
recently released Taxation Enquiry Committee Report1 of Pakistan is of
special interest and deserves close attention. The Report may be divided
into two sections. In the first seven chapters it gives a survey of the
existing tax structure. It summarizes the main features of the tax
structure and examines their implications for development; fiscal trends
over 1948-58 are analysed; the distribution of the tax burden among
various sections of the population is discussed; the redistributional
effects of the tax structure are examined; and the conflict between the
objective of maximum economic development and of equitable income
distribution is noted.

Includes index. ; "Presented to the Legislative Council, 1911." ; Photocopy. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"The Prison system enquiry committee was established in January, 1919, by the executive of the Labour research department." p.v. ; Special edition for subscribers, 1922. Supplements a volume entitled "English prisons under local government," being a history of English prison administration to 1877, with a continuation bringing the story to 1895, by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, published simultaneously with this work. of. Foreword. ; "List of principal authorities": p. [704]-706. ; Mode of access: Internet.