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[Date of commencement―16th June, 1926.

To amend the South Africa Act, 1909, by making further provision relating to the dissolution of the Senate.

(Assented to 9th June, 1926.) (Signed by the Governor-General in English.)

E IT ENACTED by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, as follows:―

1.  Notwithstanding anything contained in sections twenty, twenty-four and twenty-five of the South Africa Act, 1909, or in any other law―

the Governor-General may within one hundred and twenty days of any dissolution of the House of Assembly dissolve the Senate; upon any dissolution of the Senate, whether under section twenty of the South Africa Act, 1909, or in terms of paragraph (a) of this section―