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(b) by the deletion in the first line of subsection (2) of the word "Two" and the substitution therefor of the following-

**Four";

(c) by the addition after subsection (a) of the following new

subsection-

"(2A) No person shall be eligible for election whose name at the time of nomination is not in either part of such register.";

(4) by the repeal of subsection (4) and the substitution

therefor of the following-

"(4) (4) The second part of the register shall consist of persons qualified as hereinafter stated who have made due application to be included in the list.

(b) The persons qualified for inclusion in this part are all persons who would be liable for jury service save for exemption, upon one or more of the following grounds" tė

(i) under section 5 of the Jury Ordinance; (ii) on account of being over the age of sixty or of being afflicted with deafness, blindness or other such infirmity;

(iii) on account of exemption from jury service having been given by the Governor in Council or by the court :

Provided that the following shall not be qualified for inclusion---

(i) any person in the service of the Crown whose whole time is at the service of the Crown: (ii) any salaried functionary of a foreign government who is not carrying on business in the Colony.

(c) The second part of the register shall be kept by the Registrar of the Supreme Court and shall be compiled anew after the 1st day of January in each year."

3.

The principal Ordinance is amended by the addition after Addition section 4 of the following new section-

**Term of office of elected and appointed members,

SA. (1) The term of office of an elected member shall be from the date of notification in the Gasette of his election until the date of notification of the election of a member in his stead in the month of March in the next year but one after his election: Provided that in the case of the first election to be held in 1953 the Gazelle notification shall separately specify the two candidates who are elected with the least number of votes and they shall thereupon hold office until the date of notification of the election of two members in their stend in the month of March, 1954: Provided also that an appointment by the Governor under the proviso to subsection (2) of section 3 in the absence of sufficient nominations shall be considered the election of a member for the purpose of this subsection,

(2) The notification of appointed members (except of an appointment in order to fill a casual vacancy) shall be made in the Gazette upon the same date as the notification of election of members.

(3) The term of office of an appointed member shall be until the date of notification of an appointed member in his stead in the next year but one after his appointment: Provided that in the cast of the first appointments to be made after the enactment of this section the Governor shall cause to be separately specified three of the appointed members who shall thereupon hold office until the notification of three appointed members in their stead in the year 1954,

(4) Nothing herein contained shall prevent the re-appointment or re-election of a member upon the expiration of his term of office."

of a new section 4A,

4. Section 12 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the Amendment repeal of subsection (3) and the substitution therefor of the of section following

"(3) The Council may make standing orders for regulating the procedure at its meetings and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing such standing orders may make such provision for the preservation of order as the Council may deem necessary."

12.