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 The Legislature shall be the sovereign legislative power in and over Rhodesia and notwithstanding anything in any other law contained no Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed after the appointed day shall extend or be deemed to extend to Rhodesia as part of the law of Rhodesia unless extended thereto by an Act of the Legislature. The Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865, shall not apply to any law made after the appointed day by the Legislature. No law made after the appointed day by the Legislature shall be void or inoperative on the ground that it is repugnant to the law of England or to the provisions of any existing or future Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, or to any order, rule or regulation made under any such Act, and the powers of the Legislature shall include the power to repeal or amend any such Act, order, rule or regulation in so far as the same is part of the law of Rhodesia.

Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, Parliament may make Standing Orders with respect to the regulation and orderly conduct of its proceedings and the despatch of business and for the passing, intituling and numbering of Bills and for the presentation of Bills to the Officer Administering the Government for assent.

No Member of Parliament shall be permitted to take part in the proceedings thereof (other than proceedings necessary for the purpose of this section) until he has taken and subscribed before Parliament the oath of loyalty in the form set out in the First Schedule: Provided that the election of a Speaker may take place before the Members of Parliament have taken and sub ribed such oath.

The Speaker, or in his absence the Deputy Speaker, or in their absence a Member of Parliament (not being a Minister or Deputy Minister) elected by Parliament, shall preside at each sitting of Parliament. If objection is taken by any Member present that there are present (besides the Speaker or other Member presiding) fewer than ten Members and, after such interval as may be prescribed in the Standing Orders, the Speaker or other Member presiding ascertains that the number of Members present is still less than ten, he shall thereupon adjourn Parliament. 18