III. Afrika. 961 152. Transvaal.
(3.) The Governor in Council shall publish the names and boundaries of the
electoral divisions, as finally settled by the Commissioners, in the Gazette, and
thereafter, until there shall be another redivision, the electoral divisions so named
and defined shall be the electoral divisions of the Colony, and each such division
shall return one member to the Legislative Assembly.
(4) If any discrepancy shall arise between the description of the divisions
and the aforesaid map or maps, the description shall prevail.
XVII. Any redivision of the Colony made as aforesaid shall come into operation
at the next general election held after the completion of the redivision, and not
earlier.
XVIII.—(1.) Any person (save as herein excepted) who shall be qualified
to be registered as a voter in and for any electoral division shall be qualified and
entitled to be elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly for that or any other
electoral division.
(2.) No person holding any office of profit under the Crown within the Colony
(other than a Minister as hereinafter defined), no unrehabilitated insolvent, no
person whose estate shall be in liquidation under assignment in trust for his creditors,
and no person declared of unsound mind by a competent Court, shall be eligible to
be elected a Member of the said Assembly.
(3.) The receipt of a pension from the Crown, or by an officer of Our naval
or military forces of retired or half pay, shall not be deemed to be holding an office
of profit under the Crown.
(4.) No person who has acted as a registering or revising officer in connection
with the framing or revision of a voters’ list for any electoral division shall be
eligible to be elected as a member for that division while such list is in force.
XIX.—(1.) The Legislative Assembly shall, on their first meeting, before
proceeding to the despatch of any other business, elect one of their Members to be
Speaker of the said Assembly (subject to confirmation by the Governor) until the
dissolution thereof, and in case of vacancy in the office another Speaker shall be
elected in like manner and subject to such confirmation as aforesaid.
(2.) The seat of a Member elected to be Speaker shall thereupon become vacant
and & fresh election shall forthwith be held to fill the vacancy, and the Speaker shall
not be a Member of the Legislative Assembly while he is Speaker.
XX. The Speaker, or in his absence some Member elected by the Legislative
Assembly, shall preside at the meetings thereof.
XXI. The Legislative Assembly shall not be disqualified from the transaction
of business on account of any vacancies among the Members thereof, but the said
Assembly shall not be competent to proceed to the despatch of business unless
twenty-one Members be present.
XXIl. Any Member of the Legislative Assembly may resign his seat therein
by writing under his hand addressed to the Speaker, and upon the receipt of such
resignation by the Speaker the seat of such Member shall become vacant:
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