Section 10
Election Commission, and delimitation of constituencies
of Malaysia Act
The membership of the Election Commission shall be increased by one, and accordingly in Clause (1) of Article 114
of the Constitution for the word “two” there shall be substituted the word “three”.
(2)
In Article 113 of the Constitution there shall be omitted in
Clause (2) the words “After the first delimitation of constituencies in accordance with Article 171”, and there shall be added at the end the following Clauses:
“(6) There shall be separate reviews under Clause (2)
for the States of Malaya, for each of the Borneo States and for the State of Singapore, and for the purposes of this Part the expression ‘unit of review’ shall mean, for federal constituencies, the area under review and, for State constituencies, the State.
(7)
Subject to Clause (3), the period for the first reviews under Clause (2) for any unit of review shall be calculated from the first delimitation of constituencies for that unit under this Constitution or under the Malaysia Act.”
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