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5. Section four of the principal Act is hereby amended―

6. The Senate may from time to time establish standing committees for various matters as it may deem fit, and any Minister of State or deputy of a Minister of State may at any time with due regard to the rules of the Senate, move that any matter be referred to such a committee for investigation and report.

7. The Prime Minister or any Minister of State acting on his behalf shall at the commencement of each session and may from time to time during the course of any session of Parliament as circumstances may require, make known what bills are to be introduced in the Senate during that session.

8. (1) Any person holding office as a senator at the commencement of this Act, shall continue to hold such office as if this Act had not been passed.

(2) A vacancy in the Senate as constituted immediately prior to the commencement of this Act, shall not be filled, irrespective of whether such vacancy occurred before the said commencement or occurs thereafter.