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(8) Until such time as the chairman of the Council has been designated, or whenever the chairman is absent from any meeting of the Council or of the executive committee, the Commissioner for Coloured Affairs shall act as the chairman of the Council, or, as the case may be, of the executive committee, and shall when so acting have a casting vote in the case of an equality of votes, but no deliberative vote.

(9) The chairman of the Council and the members of the executive committee shall vacate their office as such when they vacate their seats as members of the Council.

(10) The following persons shall have the right to attend the meetings of the Council and of the executive committee and to take part in the deliberations, but shall not have the right to vote—

the Commissioner for Coloured Affairs;

a representative of the Department of Social Welfare;

a representative of the Department of Labour; and

a representative of the Administration of the province of the Cape of Good Hope.

(11) The Council may refer to the executive committee any matter falling within the functions of the Council for investigation and report and such recommendations as the committee may deem fit.

Election of members of the Council. 15. The persons whose names appear in the Cape Coloured voters’ list for any Union electoral division, shall be entitled to elect three members of the Council to represent that electoral division.

(2) If the number of Union electoral divisions is altered as provided in sub-section (4) of section nine, the four Union electoral divisions existing before such alteration shall be deemed to persist as for the purpose of any election of members of the Council, unless and until any contrary provision is made by law.

Tenure of office of members of the Council. 16. (1) The members of the Council shall hold their seats for a period of five years from the date of election or appointment as the case may be: Provided that, in the case of a candidate who is declared elected in terms of sub-section (8) of section thirty-six of the principal Act, his tenure of office shall continue for a period of five years from the date on which polling would have taken place, if a poll had been necessary.

(2) If the seat of any member of the Council or of the executive committee becomes vacant before the date of expiry of his tenure of office, another person shall, if the seat becoming vacant—