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subsequent election until such time as there shall be a fresh register of voters framed
as hereinafter prescribed, the voters shall be the persons (other than persons on full
pay belonging to Our regular forces maintained by annual vote of the Parliament
of Our United Kingdom) wlıiose names appear on the list framed under the provisions
of the Order in Our Privy Council known as the ‘““Transvaal Constitution Order in
Couneil, 1906.”
(2.) The Governor shall, as soon as practicable, cause to be compiled from the
said list a list of the voters resident in each electoral division of the Colony at the
date of the commencenent of the framing of the aforesaid first mentioned list, and
the list so compiled shall be the register of voters for such division until a new
register is made as hereinafter prescribed.
XII. Subject to the provisions of the last preceding section, the registration
of voters, the preparation of lists of voters, the conduct of elections, and the hearing
of election petitions, shall be carried out in accordance with the regulations prescribed
in the second Schedule to these Our Letters Patent.
XIII. There shall be a biennial registration of voters in every electoral division
commenced not later than the last day of Deceniber in the year next but one after
the commencement of the last preceding registration, and so on during each successive
biennial period. The first biennial registration shall be commenced not later than
the last day of December 1908.
XIV. Upon the completion of the voters’ lists made in pursuance of the second
biennial, and thereafter of every alternate biennial, registration, the Colony shall
be redivided into electoral divisions for the purpose of the election of Members of
the Legislative Assembly.
XV. For the purpose of every such redivision, the Governor in Council shall,
upon the completion of the final lists of voters made in pursuance of the second
biennial registration, and upon the completion of the voters’ lists made in pursuance
of every alternate biennial registration thereafter, appoint three Commissioners,
and may, on the death, resignation, or absence from the Colony of any of the said
Commissioners, appoint another Commissioner, and any person so appointed shall
have allthe powers, and shall perform all the duties, of the Commissioner in whose
place he is appointed. For the purposes of any such redivision the Commissioners
shall proceed in accordance with the regulations prescribed in the third Schedule
to these Our Letters Patent.
XVI.—(1.) The Commissioners shall submit to the Governor in Council—
(a.) A list of electoral divisions, with the names given to them by the Commissioners,
and a description of the boundaries of every such division.
(b.) A map or maps showing the electoral divisions into which the Colony
has been divided.
(c.) Such further particulars as they consider necessary.
(2.) The Governor in Council may refer to the Commissioners, for their
consideration, any matter relating to such list, or arising out of the powers or
duties of the Commissionere.
