Page:Senate Act 1926.djvu/1

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Act No. 54 of 1926.

[Date of commencement―16th June, 1926.^[1]

Act

To amend the South Africa Act, 1909, by making further provision relating to the dissolution of the Senate.

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(Assented to 9th June, 1926.)
(Signed by the Governor-General in English.)

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Be it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, as follows:―

Dissolution of Senate and vacation of seats by nominated members.

1. Notwithstanding anything contained in sections twenty, twenty-four and twenty-five of the South Africa Act, 1909, or in any other law―

(a)

the Governor-General may within one hundred and twenty days of any dissolution of the House of Assembly dissolve the Senate;

(b)

upon any dissolution of the Senate, whether under section twenty of the South Africa Act, 1909, or in terms of paragraph (a) of this section―

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1. This Act was first published in Gazette Extraordinary No. 1562 of the 16th June, 1926.