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Act No. 53 of 1955.

Amendment of section 1 of Act 54 of 1926.

9. Section one of the Senate Act, 1926, is hereby amended by the substitution in sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) for the word “ten” of the word “five”.

Amendment of section 30 of Act 23 of 1949.

10. Section thirty of the South-West Africa Affairs Amendment Act, 1949, is hereby amended―

(a)

by the substitution in sub-section (3) for the word “ten” of the word “five” and for the words “to be a senator, who shall also hold his seat for ten years” of the words “to hold the seat until the completion of the period for which the person in whose stead he is nominated, would have held the seat”;

(b)

by the substitution for paragraphs (b) and (c) of sub-section (4) of the following paragraphs:

“(b)

Senators shall be elected by majority vote each voter having one non-transferable vote for every senator to be elected.

(c)

If two or more persons who are at any election of senators candidates for the same seat, receive the same number of votes, a re-election of a senator for that seat shall be held forthwith according to that principle of proportional representation according to which each voter has one transferable vote, and if at such a re-election the said persons again receive the same number of votes, one of the said persons to be determined by the drawing of lots shall be deemed to have been elected as a senator for that seat.

(d)

The Governor-General may make regulations in regard to the election of senators under this section, including regulations in regard to the duties of returning officers in connection with such elections and in regard to the drawing of lots in the circumstances contemplated in paragraph (c).”;

(c)

by the substitution in sub-section (5) for the word “ten” of the word “five”.

Other laws providing for additional senators not derogated from.

11. Nothing in this Act contained shall derogate from the provisions of any law in which provision is made for the election or nomination of additional senators.

Short title.

12. This Act shall be called the Senate Act, 1955.

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