constituteproject.org • Dismissal of the legislature PDF generated: 19 Feb 2021, 13:13 3. Subject to clause (5), where during a term of office of the President the President has once dissolved the National Assembly under clause (2) and the President is of the opinion that it is in the national interest to dissolve the Assembly once again, the President may, after giving to the Speakera. seven days' notice of the intention to dissolve the Assembly; and b. • Dismissal of the legislature • Referenda 4. written notice of the President's intention to resign from office under article 52(5) on the publication of the Proclamation under this article, by Proclamation, published in the Gazette, dissolve the National Assembly and the Assembly shall stand dissolved and the President shall cease to hold office on the day next following the publication of the Proclamation. Wherea. the National Assembly votes against any measure proposal of the Government and on a referendum a majority of the cast in the referendum supports the measure or proposal and Assembly, after the referendum, again votes against the measure proposal, b. • Emergency provisions • Dismissal of the legislature • Dismissal of the legislature a proposal to alter Chapter I, III, article 91, this article or article 111 has been approved on a referendum held pursuant to article 91 and a Bill to give effect to the proposal is not supported as required by article 91 (2) in the National Assembly, the President may, after giving seven days' notice to the Speaker, by Proclamation published in the Gazette, dissolve the National Assembly within thirty days of the Assembly voting against the measure or proposal under paragraph (a) or the Assembly not supporting the Bill under paragraph (b), as the case may be and the Assembly shall stand dissolved on the day next following the publication of the Proclamation. 5. The President shall not dissolve the National Assembly under clause (2) or clause (3) during any period of public emergency in terms of article 49, where proceedings for the removal of the President under article 53 or article 54 have commenced, during the pendency of the proceedings. 111. Where the National Assembly at a meeting summoned for this purpose resolves by the affirmative votes of not less than two-thirds of the number of members of the Assembly that the Assembly be dissolved, the National Assembly shall stand dissolved on the day next following the passing of the resolution. CHAPTER VII: ELECTORAL AREAS, FRANCHISE AND ELECTORAL COMMISSION • Electoral districts 112. 1. Subject to this article , Seychelles shall be divided into as many electoral areas, as may be prescribed, for the purposes of election of members to the National Assembly and each electoral area shall be represented by one member of the National Assembly. 2. There shall be not less than nineteen electoral areas on Mahe and two electoral areas on Praslin, and the Inner Islands shall constitute one electoral area. Seychelles 1993 (rev. 2011) Page 47