Section 313:
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.
313. Absence from Legislative Assembly—On 2 January 1989, the AttorneyGeneral moved that the Court should determine that the respondent had vacated his seat in the Assembly in terms of section 35 (1) (e) of the Constitution. By the time the judgment in the case was ready to be delivered, the
Assembly had been dissolved. The Court nevertheless made observations
regarding—
(a) the evidential value of the official record of a sitting of the Assembly regarding the presence or absence of a member;
(b) the right of the Speaker to summon members to a sitting of the
Assembly on a certain date even though it had been adjourned
to a later date. Attorney-General v Duval (1991).