constituteproject.org PDF generated: 19 Feb 2021, 13:13 5. 6. Where a person other than the Attorney-General makes an application under this article, the Attorney-General may intervene and may appear or be represented in the proceedings. A law may provide for-a. the circumstances and manner in which and the imposition of conditions upon which an application may be made to the Constitutional Court for the determination of a question under clause (3); b. the powers, practice and procedure of the Constitutional Court in relation to the application; and c. • Head of state term length • Head of state term limits any matter, not otherwise provided for in Schedule 3, which is necessary or required to ensure a true, fair and effective election of the President. 52. 1. Subject to this article, a person elected as President shall hold office for a term of five years -- 2. 3. a. beginning with the date next following the date of the declaration of the election of President; or b. where another person holds office as President on the date next following the date of the declaration of the election of President, beginning on the date next c. following the date on which the office next becomes vacant. A person shall hold office as President under this Constitution for not more than three terms. The office of President becomes vacanta. on the expiration of the period specified in clause (1); b. where an election for the office of President is held before the expiration of five years referred to in clause (1), on the date next following the date of declaration of the election of President; or c. 4. 5. • Emergency provisions 6. where the incumbent dies or resigns or is removed from office under this Constitution. Where, but for this clause, the office of President would become vacant on a particular date by reason of the operation of clause (3)(a), but on that date an election held under article 51 has not resulted in the election of the President, the incumbent President shall continue to hold office until the end of the day on which the President is elected under article 51. The President may, by writing addressed to the Speaker, resign from the office of President. Where a period of public emergency subsists at the time when the term of office of President would end, the National Assembly may, by resolution approved by a majority of the members of the Assembly, extend the term of office of President -a. Seychelles 1993 (rev. 2011) where there is a declaration of a state of emergency, for not more than six months at a time but up to a maximum aggregate period of twelve months; Page 25