--No one is allowed to offer himself for election
for both Volksraads, or in more districts or election divisions than one
at the same time.
ARTICLE 12.--The members of the Volksraad may not stand to one
another in the relation of father and son or stepson.
ARTICLE 13.--No military officer or official who enjoys a
fixed yearly or monthly salary, as such, may offer himself for election
as member of either Volksraad.
ARTICLE 14.--No coloured person or bastard, nor persons of
public bad conduct, or those who have had a discreditable criminal
sentence passed on them, nor any non-rehabilitated bankrupts or
insolvents whatsoever shall be eligible as members of either Volksraad.
ARTICLE 15.--To be able to take a seat as member of the First
Volksraad, he who has been lawfully chosen must be thirty years old, and
member of a Protestant church, live in the Republic, have obtained fixed
property there and the burgher right, either before this law came into
operation, or thereafter by birth, or have obtained the franchise for
the First Volksraad according to Sub-section 2 of Article 9.
ARTICLE 16.--To be able to take a seat as member of the Second
Volksraad, he who has been lawfully chosen must be thirty years old,
have been enfranchised burgher during the two immediately preceding
years, be a member of a Protestant church, live in the Republic, and
have fixed property there.
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