Provided that any such variation shall not be deemed to be an amendment of any of the provisions of this Constitution for the purposes of Chapter X.
Any Bill which, if enacted, would have the effect of amending the provision in the electoral law of Rhodesia in relation to the counting of votes set out in paragraph 10 of the Second Schedule shall be subject to the same procedure in all respects as if it were a constitutional Bill to amend a specially entrenched provision of this Constitution within the meaning of section 116 No such Bill shall be presented to the Officer Administering the Government for assent unless the Bill is accompanied by a certificate from the Speaker that at the final vote thereon it received the affirmative votes of not less than two-thirds of the total membership of Parlianient and unless the requirements of subsection (2) of section 117 have been complied with.
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16.(1)When Parliament first meets after any general election and before it proceeds to the despatch of any other business, it shall elect a person to be Speaker, and, whenever the office of Speakei is Vacant otherwise than by reason of dissolutiun. Parliament shall not transact any other business until a person to fill that office has been elected
(2) The Speaker may be elected, in such manner as Parliament may from time to time decide either from among the Members of Parliament who are neither Ministers nor Deputy Ministers. or from among persons who are not Members of Parliament:
Provided that a person who is not a Member of Parliament shall not be elected Speaker unless, under the law for the time being in force, the possesses the qualifications and none of the disqualifications for election as a Member of Parliament.
(3) Before a person who has been elected Speaker enters upon the duties of his office, he shall (unless he has already done so in accordance with the provisions of section 28) take and sub-
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