Schedule 6: Transitional Arrangements
(6) � The rules and orders of the Senate in force when the new Constitution took effect,
must be applied in respect of the business of the National Council to the extent that
they can be applied, subject to any amendment or repeal.
Former senators
8. �
(1)
A former senator who is not appointed as a permanent delegate to the National
Council of Provinces is entitled to become a full voting member of the legislature of
the province from which that person was nominated as a senator in terms of section
48 of the previous Constitution.
(2) � If a former senator elects not to become a member of a provincial legislature
that person is regarded as having resigned as a senator the day before the new
Constitution took effect.
(3) � The salary, allowances and benefits of a former senator appointed as a permanent
delegate or as a member of a provincial legislature may not be reduced by reason
only of that appointment.
National executive
9. �
(1)
Anyone who was the President, an Executive Deputy President, a Minister or a
Deputy Minister under the previous Constitution when the
new Constitution
took effect, continues in and holds that office in terms of the new Constitution, but
subject to subitem (2).
(2) � Until 30 April 1999, sections 84, 89, 90, 91, 93 and 96 of the new Constitution must
be regarded to read as set out in Annexure B to this Schedule.
(3) � Subitem (2) does not prevent a Minister who was a senator when the new
Constitution took effect, from continuing as a Minister referred to in section 91(1)(a)
of the new Constitution, as that section reads in Annexure B.
Provincial legislatures
10. �
(1)
Anyone who was a member or office-bearer of a province’s legislature when the
new Constitution took effect, becomes a member or office-bearer of the legislature
for that province under the new Constitution, and holds office as a member or
office-bearer in terms of the new Constitution and any provincial constitution that
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