ACT OF THE 29th OF FEBRUARY 1920
SETTING FORTH THE CONSTITUTION AND JURISDICTION OF THE SENATE.
SECTION I.
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE SENATE.
§ 1.
The Senate of the Czechoslovak Republic shall consist of 150 elected members. No one may be at the same time a member of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate.
If the elections to the one chamber follow within four weeks at the latest after the elections to the other, no one may stand as candidate for both chambers. The election of a candidate in defiance of this enactment is invalid.
Anyone who, in any other case than that just referred to, being a member of the Chamber of Deputies is elected senator, or vice versa, being a member of the Senate is elected to the Chamber of Deputies, shall take his seat in that chamber to which he has been last elected.
§ 2.
The rules of franchise laid down for elections to the Chamber of Deputies shall be applicable to elections for the Senate except in such cases as this law otherwise provides.
§ 3.
All citizens who have the right to vote at elections to the Chamber of Deputies are entitled to vote at elections to the Senate if they have attained on the day of the publication of the standing Lists of Voters (Law of 19th December 1919 No. 663 Code of Laws & Regulations) the age of 26 years
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