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(1) The provisions of the last preceding section with 
regard to nominated senators shall continue to have effect. 
(2) Eight senators for each province shall be elected by 
the members of the provincial council of such province 
together with the members of the House of Assembly elected 
for such province. Such senators shall hold their seats for 
ten years unless the Senate be sooner dissolved. If the seat 
of an elected senator shall become vacant, the members of 
the provincial council of the province, together with the 
members of the House of Assembly elected for such province, 
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. The Governor-General in Council 
shall make regulations for the joint election of senators 
prescribed in this section. 
26. The qualifications of a senator shall be as follows :— 
He must—(a) be not less than 30 years of age; (b) be 
qualified to be registered as a voter for the election of 
members of the House of Assembly in one of the provinces; 
(¢) have resided for five years within the limits of the Union 
as existing at the time when he is elected or nominated, as 
the case may be; (d) be a British subject of European 
descent ; (e) in the case of an elected senator, be the 
registered owner of immovable property within the Union of 
the value of not less than £500 over and above any special 
mortgages thereon. 
For the purposes of this section, residence in, and property 
situated within, a colony before its incorporation in the 
Union shall be treated as residence in and property situated 
within the Union. 
Under s. 53 no person is capable of being chosen or of 
yittine as a senator who— 
(a) has been at any time convicted of any crime or offence 
for which he shall have been sentenced to imprisonment 
without the option of a fine for a term of not less than twelve 
months, unless he shall have received a grant of amnesty or 
a free pardon, or unless such imprisonment shall have 
expired at least five years before the date of his election ; or 
(b) is an unrehabilitated insolvent; or (c¢) is of unsound 
mind, and has been so declared by a competent court; or 
(d) holds any office of profit under the Crown within the 
Union : Provided that the following persons shall not be 
deemed to hold an office of profit under the Crown for the 
purposes of this subsection :—