the procedure at sessions of the Board, including the quorum and method of voting;
(c)
the appointment, subject to the laws governing the public service, of such officials as may be required to assist the Board in carrying out its functions;
(d)
the transmission of the resolutions and reports of the Board;
(e)
the payment of fees and allowances to the members of the Board: Provided that in regard to members of the Board who are in the wholetime employ of the State, such regulation shall be framed in consultation with the Public Service Commission.
Elections.
Elections of members of House of Assembly, of provincial councillors, and of members of the Board for Coloured Affairs under this Act.
20. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (4) of section four and of sub-sections (3), (4) and (5) of this section, the provisions of the principal Act (including the regulations thereunder) shall, mutatis mutandis, apply in regard to the election of members of the House of Assembly, of the provincial council for the province of the Cape of Good Hope, and of members of the Board under this Act, and in regard to all matters incidental thereto .
(2) The first elections of members of the House of Assembly, or of provincial councillors under this Act, shall not take place until—
(a)
in consequence of the dissolution of the House of Assembly under any provision of the South Africa Act, 1909, a general election for the House of Assembly is to take place or until (as the case may be) by virtue of the expiry of the term of office of the provincial council for the province of the Cape of Good Hope in terms of section seventy-three of the said Act, a general election for the said provincial council is to take place; and
(b)
there has been a new Union delimitation.
(3) (a) The election of members of the House of Assembly or of provincial councillors under this Act shall take place not less than eight days before the date proclaimed for polling day in terms of paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) of section thirty-five of the principal Act for the purposes of a general election.
(b) For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of paragraph (a), a special proclamation shall be issued in terms mutatis mutandis of section thirty-five of the principal Act.
(4) In regard to elections of members of the Board, the provisions of the principal Act shall apply, mutatis mutandis, as if they were elections for members of the House of Assembly, save that—
(i)
the deposit or security required in terms of section thirty-seven of the principal Act, shall be the sum of fifteen pounds;
(ii)
in cases where more than two candidates are nominated in respect of any division, a voter, upon receipt of a ballot paper, shall mark the said paper on the right-
