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(7) The designating of a person on a Party List as a
candidate for election as a Senator shall be deemed and treated to
be as a nomination of that person for election as a Senator.
(8) Nothing in this section in particular, or in this
Constitution in general, shall be construed as precluding a person
from contesting as an individual candidate for election as a
Representative, without being a member of a political party, as an
independent candidate.
Election of
Representatives.
99. (1) There shall be seventeen Representatives in the
National Assembly, or such other number of Representatives as
corresponds with the number of constituencies established in
accordance with the provisions of section 96 of this Constitution.
Each such constituency shall return one Representative to the
Assembly, each constituency directly electing its Representative in
such manner as may, subject to the provisions of this
Constitution, be prescribed by or under any law.
(2) In any election of Representatives the votes shall
be given by ballot in such manner as not to disclose how any
particular person has voted, and in accordance with the first-past-the-
post system.
Election of
Senators.
100. (1) There shall be ten seats reserved in the National
Assembly for the Senators, or such other number of Senators as
may be prescribed by Parliament so as to maintain the
proportionate relationship between Representatives and Senators
provided for respectively by subsection (2) of section 67 of this
Constitution and by sections 96, 99 and 100 of this Constitution.
The seats of the Senators shall be allocated to the political parties
contesting a general election and drawn from Party Lists in the
manner set out in section 98 of this Constitution and submitted by
the respective political parties to the Electoral and Boundaries
Commission on the nomination day for general election as set out
in subsections (2) to (13) of this section, in accordance with the
system of proportional representation described therein.
(2) The number of the ten reserved proportional
representation seats allocated to a party as seats for its Senators
under this section shall be determined by the total number of
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