South Africa Act, 1909/1937-04-23

as amended by

Exchequer and Audit Act, No. 21 of 1911

Appellate Division Act, No. 12 of 1920

South Africa Act, 1909, Amendment Act, No. 9 of 1925

South Africa Act, 1909, Further Amendment Act, No. 34 of 1925

Local Government (Provincial Powers) Act, No. 1 of 1926

Electoral Act, 1918, Amendment Act, No. 11 of 1926

Criminal and Magistrates’ Courts Procedure (Amendment) Act, No. 39 of 1926

Payment of Members of Parliament Act, No. 51 of 1926

Administration of Justice (Further Amendment) Act, No. 11 of 1927

Rhodesia Appeals Act, No. 18 of 1931

South Africa Act Amendment Act, No. 17 of 1933

Financial Adjustments Act, No. 29 of 1933

South Africa Act Amendment Act, No. 45 of 1934

Status of the Union Act, No. 69 of 1934

Census Amendment Act, No. 5 of 1935

South Africa Act Amendment Act, No. 43 of 1935

General Law Amendment Act, No. 46 of 1935

Representation of Natives Act, No. 12 of 1936

Electoral Quota Act, No. 21 of 1937

34. The number of members to be elected in each province, as provided in section thirty-three, shall be increased from time to time as may be necessary in accordance with the following provisions:―

In this section the expression― “adult Union nationals” means Union nationals (both male and female) of the age of twenty-one years or over, but does not include members of His Majesty’s regular forces on full pay, other than members of the South African Permanent Force constituted under section one of the South Africa Defence Act Amendment Act, 1922 (Act No. 22 of 1922);

“quota of the Union” means the quotient obtained by dividing the total number of European adult Union nationals as ascertained at the census taken in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-six by the number one hundred and fifty. In nineteen hundred and eleven, and every five years thereafter till nineteen hundred and fifty-one and thereafter every ten years, a census of the European population of the Union shall be taken for the purposes of this Act:

After any such census the number of European adult Union nationals in each province shall be compared with the number of European adult Union nationals as ascertained at the census of nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and, in the case of any province where an increase is shown, as compared with the census of nineteen hundred and thirty-six, equal to the quota of the Union or any multiple thereof, the number of members allotted to such province in the last preceding section shall be increased by an additional member or an additional number of members equal to such multiple, as the case may be: Notwithstanding anything herein contained, no additional member shall be allotted to any province until the total number of European adult Union nationals in such province exceeds the quota of the Union multiplied by the number of members allotted to such province for the time being, and thereupon additional members shall be allotted to such province in respect only of such excess: As soon as the number of members of the House of Assembly to be elected in the original provinces in accordance with the preceding subsections reaches the total of one hundred and fifty, such total shall not be further increased unless and until Parliament otherwise provides; and subject to the provisions of the last preceding section the distribution of members among the provinces shall be such that the proportion between the number of members to be elected at any time in each province and the number of European adult Union nationals in such province, as ascertained at the last preceding census, shall as far as possible be identical throughout the Union.