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XX.—(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,  a  member  of  the  Inter-Colonial  Council,
of  the  Liquor  Licensing  Court,  or  of  any  Commission  appointed  by  the  Governor
in  Council,  or  under  the  provisions  of  any  law  to  make  any  public  inquiry,  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  &amp;  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  Tegistering  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.

XXI.—(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  a  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.

XXI.  The  Speaker  or,  in  his  absence,  some  Member  elected  by  the  Legislative
Assembly,  shall  preside  at  the  meetings  thereof.

XXIII.  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  ten  Members  be  present.

XXIV.  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:

Provided  that  no  Member  shall,  without  the  permission  of  the  Legislative
Assembly,  resign  his  seat  while  any  proceedings  are  pending  in  respect  of  his  election
if  it  is  alleged  in  those  proceedings  that  any  corrupt  or  illegal  practices  took  place
at  that  election.

XXV.—(1.)  Whenever  a  vacancy  occurs  in  the  Legislative  Assembly  from
any  cause,  other  than  as  the  result  of  an  election  petition,  the  Speaker  shall,  upon
a  Resolution  of  the  said  Assembly  declaring  such  vacancy,  inform  the  Governor
thereof.