500 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART 11 
(¢c) Contracts for the loan of money, or securities given 
for the payment of moneying only. 
(d) Contracts for advertising by which a sum exceeding 
fitty pounds is payable, if the contract is entered into after 
public tender 
The seat of any member of Parliament shall become 
vacant— 
(a) If for one whole session of the General Assembly he 
fails, without permission of the House, to give his attendance 
in the House ; or 
(b) If he takes any oath or makes any declaration or 
acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience, or adherence, to 
any foreign prince or power ; or 
(¢) If he does or concurs in or adopts any act whereby 
he may become a subject or citizen of any foreign state or 
power, or entitled to the rights, privileges, or immunities of 
a subject of any foreign state or power; or 
(d) If he becomes a bankrupt within the meaning of the 
laws relating to bankruptcy ; or 
(e) If he is a public defaulter or is convicted of any crime 
punishable by death or by imprisonment with hard labour 
for a term of two years or upwards, or is convicted of a 
corrupt practice ; or 
(f) If be becomes a’contractor ora civil servant as defined 
in 8. 24 hereof ; or 
(9) If he resigns his seat by writing under his hand 
addressed and delivered to the Speaker of the House, or 
to the Governor if there is no Speaker or the Speaker is 
absent from New Zealand, or if the resigning member is the 
Speaker ; or 
(h) If on an election petition the Election Court declares 
his election void ; or 
(t) If he dies ; or 
(J) If he becomes a lunatic, as provided by the next 
succeeding section. 
(dy South Africa 
The old Colonial rules no longer retain validity for the 
Union Parliament, and may be given very briefly as they 
stood in 1910 before union. 
In the Cape a member was qualified if he was entitled to be 
registered as a voter. Insolvency, change of nationality, 
acceptance of an office of profit other than a ministerial office, 
failure to attend for a whole session, and logs of qualification. 
vacated a seat, and a member might also resign.