§ 4.
Citizens of the Czechoslovak Republic without regard to sex may be elected to the Senate if, on the day of election they have attained the age of 45 years, have been for at least ten years citizens of the Czechoslovak Republic and are not excluded from the franchise. For elections which shall take place up to the end of the year 1928 this condition of ten year’s citizenship shall not be required.
§ 5.
The Senate shall be elected for a period of eight years.
§ 6.
If the elections to the Senate take place within four weeks at the latest of the day on which the elections to the Chamber of Deputies took place the Polling Committees of the constituencies and the Central Polling Committee which were in charge of the elections to the Chamber of Deputies shall also take charge of the elections to the Senate.
Representatives of parties who have not put forward valid lists of candidates for the Senate may not be members of these committees; on the contrary these committees shall be composed of representatives of those parties which put forward no candidates for the Chamber of Deputies but presented valid lists of candidates for the Senate. § 9 and § 11 of the Rules of Franchise for the Chamber of Deputies are to be applied in this matter.
Except in the case stated in § 1 the Polling Committees of the constituencies and the Central Polling Committee must be constituted anew.
§ 7.
In every constituency which elects members to the Senate a district Polling Commitee shall be set up. The Rules of Franchise for elections to the Chamber of Deputies relating to district Polling Committees apply by analogy thereto.
A district Polling Committee for elections to the Senate has the same competence in the matter of elections to the Senate as a district Polling Committee, set up in pursuance of § 10 of the Rules of Franchise for election to the Chamber of Deputies, has in respect of elections to the Chamber of Deputies.
§ 8.
In the case stated in § 6 section 1 citizens who are not entitled to vote at the elections to the Senate may be members of a committee which has charge of elections, to the Senate.
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