South Africa Act, 1909/1942-04-22

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

South Africa Act Amendment Act, No. 13 of 1938

Constitution (Prevention of Disabilities) Act, No. 19 of 1940

Electoral Laws Amendment Act, No. 20 of 1940

Judges’ Act, No. 41 of 1941

Electoral Quota Consolidation Act, No. 30 of 1942

32. The House of Assembly shall be composed of―

one hundred and fifty members, each of whom shall be directly elected by the persons entitled to vote at an election of such a member in an electoral division delimited as provided in section forty-one; and three members elected in accordance with the provisions of the Representation of Natives Act, 1936 (Act No. 12 of 1936).

41. (1) In this section the expression “adult Union nationals” means persons (whether males or females) of the age of twenty-one years or over, who are Union nationals or deemed to be Union nationals in terms of the Union Nationality and Flags Act, 1927 (Act No. 40 of 1927).

(2) As soon as may be after every census which the Governor-General-in-Council was obliged to cause to be taken in terms of section three of the Census Act, 1910 (Act No. 2 of 1910), the Governor-General-in-Council shall appoint a delimitation commission consisting of three judges of the Supreme Court of South Africa, which shall divide each province of the Union into so many electoral divisions that their number bears, as nearly as possible, the same ratio to one hundred and fifty, as the number of European adult Union nationals in the province in question (as ascertained by means of the said census) bears to the total number of European adult Union nationals in the Union as ascertained by means of the said census.

(3) In dividing a province into electoral divisions in terms of sub-section (2) the said commission shall act in accordance with the provisions of section forty.