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(2) The provisions of sections fifty-one to fifty-six both inclusive, of the South Africa Act, 1909, shall apply to all members of the House of Assembly elected under this Act.

(3) The aforesaid members shall not have the right to vote at the election of senators under the provisions of paragraph (ii) of section twenty-five of the South Africa Act, 1909, but shall otherwise have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities which members of the House of Assembly elected under the South Africa Act have, and shall be subject to all the duties and obligations to which such members are subject.

11. (1) The persons whose names appear in the Cape Coloured voters’ list for a provincial electoral division shall be entitled to elect one member of the provincial council of the province of the Cape of Good Hope, to represent such a division.

(2) The members of the provincial council who may be elected under this Act shall be in addition to the provincial councillors for the election of whom provision is made by the South Africa Act, 1909, and the Representation of Natives Act, 1936.

12. (1) The qualification for election under this Act as a member of the provincial council of the Cape of Good Hope shall be the qualification prescribed in sub-section (2) of section seventy of the South Africa Act, 1909, save that—

in addition residence for two years within the province of the Cape of Good Hope shall be a necessary requirement;

any person qualified to vote for the election of a member of the provincial council in terms of the Representation of Natives Act, 1936 (Act No. 12 of 1936), shall not be qualified for election as a member of the said provincial council.

(2) The provisions of section seventy-two of the South Africa Act, 1909, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to all provincial councillors elected under this Act.

(3) The aforesaid provincial councillors shall not have the right to vote at an election of senators under paragraph (ii) of section twenty-five of the South Africa Act, 1909, but shall otherwise have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities which provincial councillors elected under the South Africa Act have, and shall be subject to all the duties and obligations to which such provincial councillors are subject.

13. (1) Any non-European or native in the province of Natal who is registered as a voter at the date of commencement of this Act, shall continue to be so registered, as long as he retains his qualifications in terms of sections five and six of the principal Act and remains resident in the said province.