22. There shall be a session of Parliament once at least in every year, so that a period of twelve months shall not intervene between the last sitting of Parliament in one session and its first sitting in the next session.

23. Cape Town shall be the seat of the Legislature of the Union.

Senate.

24. For ten years after the establishment of the Union the constitution of the Senate shall, in respect of the original provinces, be as follows:

(i.) Eight senators shall be nominated by the GovernorGeneral in Council, and for each original province eight senators shall be elected in the manner hereinafter provided;

(ii.) The senators to be nominated by the Governor-General in Council shall hold their seats for ten years. One-half of their number shall be selected on the ground mainly of their thorough acquaintance, by reason of their official experience or otherwise, with the reasonable wants and wishes of the coloured races in South Africa. If the seat of a senator so nominated shall become vacant, the Governor-General in Council shall nominate another person to be a senator, who shall hold his seat for ten years;

(iii.) After the passing of this Act, and before the day appointed for the establishment of the Union, the Governor of each of the Colonies shall summon a special sitting of both Houses of the Legislature, and the two Houses sitting together as one body and presided over by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly shall elect eight persons to be senators for the province. Such senators shall hold their seats for ten years. the seat of a senator so elected shall become vacant the provincial council of the province for which such senator has been elected shall choose a person to hold the seat until the completion of the period for which the person in whose stead he 15 elected would have held his seat.

25. Parliament may provide for the manner in which Senate shall be constituted after the expiration of ten and unless and until such provision shall have been ma

(i.) The provisions of the last preceding section to nominated senators shall continue to have effect.

(ii.) Eight senators for each province shall be c members of the provincial council of such prov with the members of the House of Assembly ele province. Such senators shall hold their seats unless the Senate be sooner dissolved. If the seat senator shall become vacant, the members of t council of the province, together with the mer House of Assembly elected for such province, s person to hold the seat until the completion of ti which the person in whose stead he is elected wo his seat. The Governor-General in Council shall

If

lations for the joint election of senators prescribed in this

section.

26. The qualifications of a senator shall be as follows:He must

(a.) Be not less than 30 years of age;

(b.) Be qualified to be registered as a voter for the election of members of the House of Assembly in one of the provinces; (c.) Have resided for five years within the limits of the Union as existing at the time when he is elected or nominated, as the case may be;

(d.) Be a British subject of European descent;

(e.) In the case of an elected senator, be the registered owner of immovable property within the Union of the value of not less than 500/. over and above any special mortgages thereon.

For the purposes of this section residence in, and property situated within, a Colony before it incorporation in the Union shall be treated as residence in and property situated within the Union.

27. The Senate shall before proceeding to the dispatch of any other business choose a senator to be the President of the Senate, and as often as the office of President becomes vacant the Senate shall again choose a senator to be the President. The President shall cease to hold office if he ceases to be a senator. He may be removed from office by a vote of the Senate, or he may resign his office by writing under his hand addressed to the Governor-General.

28. Prior to or during any absence of the President the Senate may choose a senator to perform his duties in his absence.

29. A senator may, by writing under his hand addressed to the Governor-General, resign his seat, which thereupon shall become vacant. The Governor-General shall as soon as practicable cause steps to be taken to have the vacancy filled.

30. The presence of at least twelve senators shall be necessary to constitute a meeting of the Senate for the exercise of its powers.

31. All questions in the Senate shall be determined by a majority of votes of senators present other than the President or the presiding senator, who shall, however, have and exercise a casting vote in the case of an equality of votes.

House of Assembly.

32. The House of Assembly shall be composed of directly chosen by the voters of the Union in elector delimited as hereinafter provided.

33. The number of members to be electe provinces at the first election and until t in accordance with the provisions of follows:

These numbers may be increased as provided in the next succeeding section, but shall not, in the case of any original province, be diminished until the total number of members of the House of Assembly in respect of the provinces herein provided for reaches 150, or until a period of ten years has elapsed after the establishment of the Union, whichever is the longer period.

34. The number of members to be elected in each province, as provided in section 33, shall be increased from time to time as may be necessary in accordance with the following provisions:

(i.) The quota of the Union shall be obtained by dividing the total number of European male adults in the Union, as ascertained at the census of 1904, by the total number of members of the House of Assembly as constituted at the establishment of the Union;

(ii.) In 1911, and every five years thereafter, a census of the European population of the Union shall be taken for the purposes of this Act;

(iii.) After any such census the number of European male adults in each province shall be compared with the number of European male adults as ascertained at the census of 1904, and, in the case of any province where an increase is shown, as compared with the census of 1904, equal to the quota of the Union or any multiple thereof, the number of members allotted to such province in the last preceding section shall be increased by an additional member or an additional number of members equal to such multiple, as the case may be;

(iv.) Notwithstanding anything herein contained, no additional member shall be allotted to any province until the total number of European male adults in such province exceeds the quota of the Union multiplied by the number of members allotted to such province for the time being, and thereupon additional members shall be allotted to such province in respect only of such excess;

(v.) As soon as the number of member Assembly to be elected in th with the preceding subsect total shall not be further ment otherwise provides; the last preceding section t the provinces shall be such number of members to b and the number ascertained at

be identical thi

(vi.) * Male

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the House of accordance 150, such Parlia

as of

males of 21 years of age or upwards not being members of His Majesty's regular forces on full pay;

(vii.) For the purposes of this Act the number of European male adults, as ascertained at the census of 1904, shall be taken to be

35.-(1.) Parliament may by law prescribe the qualifications which shall be necessary to entitle persons to vote at the election of members of the House of Assembly, but no such law shall disqualify any person in the province of the Cape of Good Hope who, under the laws existing in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope at the establishment of the Union, is or may become capable of being registered as a voter from being so registered in the province of the Cape of Good Hope by reason of his race or colour only, unless the Bill be passed by both Houses of Parliament sitting together, and at the third reading be agreed to by not less than two-thirds of the total number of members of both Houses. A Bill so passed at such joint sitting shall be taken to have been duly passed by both Houses of Parliament.

(2.) No person who at the passing of any such law is registered as a voter in any province shall be removed from the register by reason only of any disqualification based on race or colour.

36. Subject to the provisions of the last preceding section, the qualifications of parliamentary voters, as existing in the several Colonies at the establishment of the Union, shall be the qualifications necessary to entitle persons in the corresponding provinces to vote for the election of members of the House of Assembly Provided that no member of His Majesty's regular forces on full pay shall be entitled to be registered as a voter.

37.-(1.) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the laws in force in the Colonies at the establishment of the Union relating to elections for the more numerous Houses of Parliament in such Colonies respectively, the registration of voters, the oaths or declarations to be taken by voters, returning officers, the powers and duties of such officers, the proceedings in connection with elections, election expenses, corrupt and illegal practices, the hearing of election petitions and the proceedings incident thereto, the vacating of seats of members, and the proceedings necessary for filling such vacancies, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to the elections in the respective provinces members of the House of Assembly.

(2.) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any of said laws contained, at any general election of member House of Assembly, all polls shall be taken on one a day in all the electoral divisions throughout the U to be appointed by the Governor-General in Counc

38. Between the date of the passing of this Act and the date fixed for the establishment of the Union, the Governor in Council of each of the Colonies shall nominate a Judge of any of the Supreme or High Courts of the Colonies, and the Judges so nominated shall, upon acceptance by them respectively of such nomination, form a joint commission, without any further appointment, for the purpose of the first division of the provinces into electoral divisions. The High Commissioner for South Africa shall forth with convene a meeting of such commission at such time and place in one of the Colonies as he shall fix and determine. At such meeting the Commissioners shall elect one of their number as chairman of such commission. They shall thereupon proceed with the discharge of their duties under this Act, and may appoint persons in any province to assist them or to act as assessors to the commission or with individual members thereof for the purpose of inquiring into matters connected with the duties of the commission. The commission may regulate their own procedure and may act by a majority of their number. All moneys required for the payment of the expenses of such commission before the establishment of the Union in any of the Colonies shall be provided by the Governor in Council of such Colony. In case of the death, resignation or other disability of any of the Commissioners before the establishment of the Union, the Governor in Council of the Colony in respect of which he was nominated shall forthwith nominate another Judge to fill the vacancy. After the establishment of the Union the expenses of the commission shall be defrayed by the Governor-General in Council, and any vacancies shall be filled by him.

39. The commission shall divide each province into electoral divisions, each returning one member.

40.-(1.) For the purpose of such division as is in the last preceding section mentioned, the quota of each province shall be obtained by dividing the total number of voters in the province, as ascertained at the last registration of voters, by the number of members of the House of Assembly to be elected therein.

(2.) Each province shall be divided into electoral divisions in such a manner that each such division shall, subject to the provisions of subsection (3) of this section, contain a number of voters, as nearly as may be, equal to the quota of the province.

(3.) The Commissioners shall gi
(a.) Community or diversity of
(b.) Means of communication.
(c.) Physical features;

(d.) Existing electoral boundaries
. (e.) Sparsity or density of pop a
in such manner that, we tak
basis of division, the

it necessary, depart 11 extent than 15 per ceri