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North Borneo and Brunei or in the Supreme Court of Singapore or any judicial office in the territories comprised in a Borneo State or Singapore before Malaysia Day (not being judges of the Supreme Court) shall on that day continue in the like offices, subject to any appointment of any of them to another office.


 * (2) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to offices in the Court of Appeal in those Supreme Courts ; but a person who under that sub-section becomes on Malaysia Day an officer of a High Court shall, unless or until other provision is made under this Part or by or under federal law, discharge in that office the like functions, as nearly as may be, in relation to the Federal Court as immediately before that day he discharged in any office held by him in a Court of Appeal, as if that office had immediately before Malaysia Day been amalgamated with his office in the High Court.


 * (3) This section shall apply to an office in a Supreme Court as such as if it had been an office in the High Court.

Chapter 4—Parliament and Legislative Assemblies


 * 93. (1) In each of the Borneo States and in Singapore the Governor shall, without the necessity for any notice under section 1 of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution, require the Legislative Assembly to elect Senators as soon as may be after Malaysia Day.


 * (2) The term of office of a Senator elected at the first election in each of the States mentioned in sub-section (1) shall be the period ending at the end of August, 1968 or, in the case of the Senator who receives the fewer votes, the period ending at the end of August, 1965 ; and if at that election the two Senators elected each receive the same number of votes, the Senator who has the longer term of office shall be determined by lot.


 * (3) Of the six Senators first appointed by virtue of section 8 of this Act, three shall be appointed for a term ending at the end of August, 1968, and three for a term ending at the end of August, 1965.


 * 94. (1) In the Borneo States there shall be a period of indirect elections to the House of Representatives and to the Legislative Assembly; and Part VIII of the Constitution shall not have effect for the purpose of any election during that period to that House or Assembly.


 * (2) The period of indirect elections in any State shall be, for elections to the House of Representatives, the period up to the first dissolution of Parliament occurring after the end of August, 1968 or, for elections to the Legislative Assembly, the first dissolution of that Assembly so occurring :


 * Provided that with the concurrence of the Governor of a State the Yang di-Pertuan Agong may by order direct that this sub-section shall have effect in relation to the State with the substitution of an earlier date for the end of August, 1968.