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in the Cape Coloured voters’ list by the number of persons to be elected.

(b) The boundaries of each such division shall be fixed in such manner that the number of persons registered in the Cape Coloured voters’ list who reside within each such division shall be approximately the same, due consideration being given by the Commission to community or diversity of interests, means of communication, physical features and sparsity or density of population in such manner that, while taking the quota of voters as the basis of division, the Commissioners may, whenever they deem it necessary, depart therefrom, but in no case to any greater extent than fifteen per centum more or fifteen per centum less than the quota.

(4) For the purpose of carrying out their duties, the Commission shall be vested with the powers of a Commission appointed in terms of the Commissions Act, 1947 (Act No. 8 of 1947), and in this regard the provisions of sections three, five and six of the said Act shall apply mutatis mutandis.

(5) The Commission shall submit to the Governor-General—

a list of the electoral divisions into which the said province has so been divided, together with the name given by the Commission to, and a description of the boundaries of, each such division;

a map of the said province showing these boundaries;

such further particulars as the Commission may deem necessary.

(6) The Governor-General may refer to the Commission any matter relating to such list of divisions, or arising out of the powers or duties of the Commission.

(7) The Governor-General shall proclaim the names and boundaries of electoral divisions as finally settled by the Commission.

(8) Whenever a delimitation of electoral divisions is required to be made in the Union, in terms of section forty-one of the South Africa Act, 1909 (save and except the first delimitation after the commencement of this Act that is so required to be made), the Commission that is appointed to undertake such delimitation, shall proceed at the same time to re-divide the province of the Cape of Good Hope in terms of the preceding provisions of this section, and shall be deemed to be for all purposes a Commission appointed in terms of the provisions of sub-section (1).

7. In addition to the senators for the nomination or election of whom provision is made by the South Africa Act, 1909, the Representation of Natives Act, 1936, and the South-West Africa Affairs Amendment Act, 1949, a senator shall be nominated by the Governor-General on the ground of his thorough acquaintance, by reason of his official experience or otherwise, with the reasonable wants and wishes of the