552 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART III 
and Legislative Assembly shall be taken to have been 
carried, and if the proposed law, with the amendments, 
if any, so carried, is affirmed by an absolute majority of the 
total number of the members of the Legislative Council and 
Legislative Assembly, it shall be taken to have been duly 
passed by the Legislature. 
(e) Union of South Africa 
The Senate of South Africa under the South African Act 
1909,! which took effect from the 31st of May 1910, is con- 
stituted as follows —. 
24. For ten years after the establishment of the Union, 
the constitution of the Senate shall, in respect of the original 
provinces, be as follows :— 
(1) Eight senators shall be nominated by the Governor- 
General in Council, and for each original province eight 
senators shall be elected in the manner hereinafter provided : 
(2) The senators to be nominated by the Governor- 
General in Council shall hold their seats for ten years. One- 
half of their number shall be selected on the ground mainly 
of their thorough acquaintance, by reason of their official 
experience or otherwise, with the reasonable wants and 
wishes of the coloured races in South Africa. If the seat 
of a senator so nominated shall become vacant, the Governor- 
General in Council shall nominate another person to be 
a senator, who shall hold his seat for ten years. 
(8) After the passing of this Act, and before the day 
appointed for the establishment of the Union, the Governor 
of each of the Colonies shall summon a special sitting of 
both Houses of the Legislature, and the two Houses sitting 
bogether as one body, and presided over by the Speaker 
of the Legislative Assembly, shall elect eight persons to 
be senators for the province. Such senators shall hold their 
seats for ten years.” If the seat of a senator so elected shall 
become vacant, the provincial council of the province for 
which such senator has been selected shall choose a person 
to hold the seat until the completion of the period for which 
the person in whose stead he is elected would have held 
his seat. 
25. Parliament may provide for the manner in which the 
Senate shall be constituted after the expiration of ten years, 
and unless and until such provision shall have been made :— 
1 9 Edw. VIL ¢. 9.