Section 290:
consolidated text (as at 2017). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
290. More than one vacancy in a constituency—Two vacancies had occurred in a three-number constituency and a writ was issued for an election
to return 2 members of the Assembly. The relevant regulations were then
amended to provide that, in such a situation, electors should vote for as
many voters as there are members to be elected. The plaintiffs contended
that the new Regulations were unconstitutional.
HELD in the absence of specific provisions in the Schedule or elsewhere
in the Constitution, where 2 out of 3 members of the Assembly resign their
seats in the same constituency, paragraph 1 (2) of the First Schedule to the
Constitution gives power to Parliament to make provision with regard to the
number of votes which an elector could validly cast at a by-election. Valayden v President of the Republic of Mauritius (1995).