2010 ED] CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES [CAP 167
a person has been appointed to the office of Attorney-General
shall not be altered to the disadvantage of the person after the
appointment.
CHAPTER VI
LEGISLATURE
PART 1
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
77. There shall be a National Assembly of Seychelles.
78. The National Assembly shall consist of(a) such number of members directly elected in
accordance with(i) this Constitution; and
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Assembly
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(ii) subject to this Constitution, an Act,
as is equal to the number of electoral areas;
(b) not more than 10 members elected on the basis of
the scheme of proportional representation
specified in Schedule 4.
79.(1) A general election shall be held during the period starting
at the beginning of the fifty-seventh month and ending at the end
of the fifty-ninth month of a session of the National Assembly.
(2) Where a person ceases to be a directly elected member of
the National Assembly under article 81, a by- election shall be
held within 30 days of the person ceasing to be a member of the
Assembly unless the cessation occurred within three months
before the beginning of the period within which a general
election is required to be held under clause (1).
(3) Subject to clause (4), a directly elected member of the
National Assembly shall be directly elected by secret ballot by
persons entitled to vote under this Constitution.
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election and
by-election