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Legislative Assembly.
VIII. The Legislative Assembly shall, save as hereinafter provided, consist
of sixty-nine Members, who shall be elected by the voters in the electoral divisions
defined and named by the Commissioners appointed by the Governor under Transvaal
Government Notice No. 788 of 1906, and published in the Gazette, and in
accordance with the instructions to them contained in Transvaal Government Notice
No. 979 of 1906, which are set forth in the first Schedule to these Our Letters Patent.
A list of the electoral divisions, when defined and named as aforesaid, shall
be proclaimed by the Governor in the Gazette, and each such division shall return
one Member of the Legislative Assembly.
IX.—(1.) Every white male British subject of the age of 21 years and upwards,
who is not subject to any of the disqualifications hereinafter mentioned, shall be
entitled to be registered as a voter and, when so registered, to vote at any election
of Members of the Legislative Assembly.
(2). Provided that no person on full pay belonging to Our regular forces maintained
by annual vote of the Parliament of Our United Kingdom shall be entitled
to be registered as a voter or to vote.
X. No person shall be entitled to be registered as a voter on any register of
voters—
(1.) (a.) Unless he has resided in the Transvaal for a period of not less
than six months next before the commencement (as declared by proclamation
of the Governor) of the framing of a general register of voters, and—
(b.) Is at the said date bona fide residing in the electoral division for which
he claims to be registered.
(c.) Provided that any person who within three years next before the commencement
of the framing of a general register of voters has resided in the Colony
for not less than six months, but who has been temporarily absent during the six
months next before that date, shall be entitled to be so registered notwithstanding
such absence on proof being given, by him, or on his behalf, to the registering officer
that his absence was temporary.
(2.) If he has been by any of Our Courts—
(&.) Convicted since the 31st day of May, 1902, of treason or at any time of
murder, unless he shall have obtained a free pardon.
(b.) Convicted at any time of any offence and sentenced to imprisonment
without the option of a fine, which imprisonment shall not have expired at least
three years before the date of the commencement of the framing of such register.
(3.) If he has been, within six months of the commencement of the framing
of such register, in receipt of relief from public funds in the Colony not being relief
by way of repatriation under Article X of the Terms of Peace of the 31st May, 1902:
Provided that treatment without payment therefor in any hospital supported
wholly or partiy out of public funds shall not be regarded as relief from public funds.
X1.—(1.) For the purpose of the first election of members of the Legislative
Assembly, to be held under the provisions of these Our Letters Patent, and of every
