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Government Gazette, 18 December 1996
No. 17678 115

Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 Act No. 108, 1996
Schedule 3—Election Procedures

Part B — Formula to Determine Party Participation in Provincial Delegations to the National Council of Provinces


1.

The number of delegates in a provincial delegation to the National Council of Provinces to which a party is entitled, must be determined by multiplying the number of seats the party holds in the provincial legislature by ten and dividing the result by the number of seats in the legislature plus one.

2.

If a calculation in terms of item 1 yields a surplus not absorbed by the delegates allocated to a party in terms of that item, the surplus must compete with similar surpluses accruing to any other party or parties, and any undistributed delegates in the delegation must be allocated to the party or parties in the sequence of the highest surplus.