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(b) holds or is acting in any office of emolument under the Crown ;

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Page 141 (c) is an undischarged bankrupt or unrehabilitated insolvent, having been declared bankrupt or insolvent under any law in force in any part of Her Majesty's dominions; or

(d) is under sentence of death, or is serving, or has within the immediately preceding five years completed the serving of, a sentence of imprisonment (by whatever name called) exceeding six months imposed in any part of Her Majesty's dominions and has not received a free pardon; or

(e) is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law for the time being in force in the Federation or in any part thereof; or

(f) is disqualified for election to the Federal Assembly by any law for the time being in force relating to offences connected with elections.

(2)(22) If a member of a Territorial Legislature stands for election to the Federal Assembly as an Elected Member for African Interests and is elected thereto, he will not take his seat in the Federal Assembly until he has resigned his seat in the Territorial Legislature.

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9. The three members from Southern Rhodesia will be elected in Members accordance with regulations to be made by the Governor of Southern Southern Rhodesia. The regulations will provide for the election of two African Rhodesia. members and one European member.

10.(23) (1) The two members from Northern Rhodesia will be elected Members

from by such body as the Governor of Northern Rhodesia may, for the Northern purposes of this paragraph, designate as a body representative of Rhodesia. Africans.

(2) The said members will be elected in accordance with regulations made by the Governor of Northern Rhodesia.

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11.(23) (1) The two members from Nyasaland will be elected by such Members body as the Governor of Nyasaland may, for the purposes of this

Nyasaland. paragraph, designate as a body representative of Africans.

(2) The said members will be elected in accordance with regulations made by the Governor of Nyasaland.

12,(24) The seat of an Elected Member for African Interests will Tenure of become vacant-

(a) upon dissolution of the Federal Assembly; or

(b) upon his death; or

(c) if he resigns his seat by writing under his hand addressed to

the Speaker; or

(d) if he is absent from twenty-one consecutive sittings of the Assembly and at the expiration of one month after the twenty- first sitting the Speaker has not, by writing under his hand, excused such absence; or

(22) See footnote (18) to paragraph 4 (2) (b) above.

(23) It is intended that for the first election the bodies designated for this purpose will be in the case of Northern Rhodesia, the African Representative Council, and in the case of Nyasaland, the African Protectorate Council.

(24) See footnotę (21) to paragraphs 7 and 8 above.

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