Separate Representation of Voters Act, 1951/1957-03-15

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as amended by

Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act, No. 30 of 1956 Electoral Laws Further Amendment Act, No. 8 of 1957

6. (1) Any Commission (hereinafter referred to as the Commission) appointed after the commencement of this Act under section forty-one of the South Africa Act, 1909, to undertake a delimitation of electoral divisions in the Union, shall proceed at the same time to divide the province of the Cape of Good Hope as in this section prescribed.

(2) The Commission shall divide the province of the Cape of Good Hope—

into four Union electoral divisions;

into two provincial electoral divisions.

(3) (a) The quota of voters for each such division shall be obtained by dividing the number of persons registered 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.