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sitting of the council in one session and its first sitting in the next session.

(2) If immediately before the commencement of this Act any provincial council constituted under the South Africa Act, 1909, is in session by virtue of a proclamation issued under section seventy-four of that Act, that session shall be resumed from a date after such commencement to be determined before such commencement by resolution of that council in the same manner as if it were a session of the corresponding provincial council established by this Act for the holding of which the time had been duly fixed in terms of this Act.

73. (1) The provincial council shall elect from among its members a chairman, and may make rules for the conduct of its proceedings.

(2) Rules made under sub-section (1) shall be transmitted by the administrator to the State President, and shall have full force and effect unless and until the State President expresses his disapproval thereof in writing addressed to the administrator.

74. The members of the provincial council shall receive such allowances as shall be determined by the State President.

75. There shall be freedom of speech in the provincial council and no administrator or any other member of the executive committee of a province and no member of the provincial council shall be liable to any civil or criminal proceedings, arrest, imprisonment or damages by reason of any matter or thing which he may have brought by petition, draft ordinance, resolution, motion or otherwise, or have said before the provincial council, or by reason of his vote in such council.

Executive Committees.

76. (1) Each provincial council shall at its first meeting after any general election elect from among its members, or otherwise, four persons to form with the administrator, who shall be chairman, an executive committee for the province.

(2) The members of the executive committee other than the administrator shall hold office until the election of their successors in the same manner.

(3) The members so elected shall receive such remuneration as the provincial council, with the approval of the State President shall determine.

(4) (a) A member of the provincial council shall not be disqualified from sitting as a member by reason of his having been elected as a member of the executive committee, and a member of the executive committee shall not be disqualified from being elected as a member of the provincial council, or from being appointed as a deputy-administrator under the provisions of sub-section (4) of section sixty-six.

(b) A member of the executive committee who is appointed as a deputy-administrator under the provisions of sub-section