Act No. 46 of 1951.
European population in the province of the Cape of Good Hope.
8. (1) The qualifications for nomination as a senator under this Act shall be those prescribed for nominated senators in section twenty-six of the South Africa Act, 1909, save that, in addition, residence for five years within the province of the Cape of Good Hope, shall be a necessary requirement.
(2) The provisions of sections fifty-one to fifty-six, both inclusive, of the South Africa Act, 1909, shall apply to any senator nominated under this Act.
(3) The said senator—
Representation of non-Europeans in the House of Assembly.
9. (1) The persons whose names appear in the Cape Coloured voters’ list for any Union electoral division shall be entitled to elect one member of the House of Assembly to represent such electoral division.
(2) The members of the House of Assembly who may be elected under this Act, shall be in addition to the members of the House of Assembly for the election of whom provision is made by the South Africa Act, 1909, the Representation of Natives Act, 1936 (Act No. 12 of 1936), and the South-West Africa Affairs Amendment Act, 1949 (Act No. 23 of 1949).
(3) If the number of members of the House of Assembly prescribed in paragraph (a) of section thirty-two of the South Africa Act, 1909, is at any time hereafter decreased or increased by legal enactment, the number of members to be elected under the provisions of this Act shall bear, as nearly as possible, the same ratio to the number of members of the House of Assembly so increased or decreased, as the number of members first elected under the provisions of this Act bears to the number of one hundred and fifty.
(4) If the number of members who may be elected to the House of Assembly under this Act is altered in terms of the provisions of sub-section (3), the reference in paragraph (a) of sub-section (5) of section two to four parts, and in paragraph (a) of sub-section (2) of section six to four divisions, shall respectively, be deemed to be amended accordingly so as to give effect to such alteration.
10. (1) The qualifications for election as a member of the House of Assembly under this Act shall be those prescribed in section forty-four of the South Africa Act, 1909, save that, in addition, residence for two years within the province of the Cape of Good Hope, shall be a necessary requirement.