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Republic of Tanganyika (Consequential Provisions)

of the provisions of the Republican Constitution and shall hold office in accordance therewith; and such persons shall be deemed to have complied with any requirement of the Republican Constitution to take and subscribe any oath on election:

Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any person who is not a citizen of Tanganyika, but any such person shall vacate such office aforesaid on the commencement of the Republican Constitution.

Rules and

22. The Standing Rules and Orders and other the rules of procedure Standing of the existing National Assembly as in force immediately before the Orders commencement of the Republican Constitution shall, except as may be otherwise provided by the National Assembly, continue to be the Standing Rules and Orders and rules of procedure of the National Assembly after the commencement of the Republican Constitution but shall be construed with such modifications, adaptations, qualifications and exceptions as may be necessary to bring them into conformity with the Republican Constitution and this Act.

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23. Subject to any alteration made in accordance with section 32 of Constituencies the Republican Constitution, the constituencies prescribed by the Electoral Commission established under the existing Constitution shall, on being approved by resolution of the existing National Assembly, be the constituencies into which Tanganyika shall be divided as from the expiry of the interim period for the purposes of elections to the National Assembly.

24.—(1) Until new provision is made for the holding of elections to Elections the National Assembly, the election of members to the National Assembly shall be held in accordance with the provisions of regulations

2 and 3 and of Parts V to X (inclusive) of the Legislative Council G.N. 1960 Elections Regulations, 1960, as in force on the eighth day of December, No. 55 1962, and as amended and modified by the Registration of Voters Acts 1962 (National Elections) Act, 1962, and Part IV of the Second Schedule to No. 41

this Act.

(2) The President may, by regulations published in the Gazette, amend any provision of the Legislative Council Elections Regulations, 1960, in order to bring them into conformity with the provisions of the Republican Constitution and of this Act.

25. The first meeting of the National Assembly after the commence- First meeting

of Assembly ment of the Republican Constitution shall be held at a half past eight during o'clock in the morning on the tenth day of December, 1962.

Republic

Citizenship

laws

26. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4 of this Act, Existing. Chapter I of the existing Constitution, as amended in accordance with citizenship the Third Schedule to this Act, shall continue to be law after the com. mencement of the Republic of Tanganyika, and shall have effect as if it were an Act of Parliament and shall be cited as the Citizenship Act, 1961 and printed accordingly.

(2) References in any other law to Chapter I of the existing Constitu- tion or to any provision thereof shall be read and construed as references to the Citizenship Act, 1961, and to the corresponding provision of that Act.