# The Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution (Amendment) Order 2024, Article 9: Removal of appointed members, composition of the Legislature and qualifications of elected members


(1) For “elected or appointed” and “elected and appointed”, in each place they occur (including in headings), substitute “elected”.
(2) In section 31(7), for “not exceeding two-fifths of the combined number of appointed and elected members of the House of Assembly permitted in paragraphs (b) and (c) of section 43(1) respectively” substitute “not exceeding two-fifths plus one of the number of elected members of the Parliament permitted in section 43(1)(b)”.
(3) In section 43(1)—
(a) in paragraph (b), for “fifteen” substitute “nineteen”,
(b) in paragraph (b), after “members;” insert “and”, and
(c) omit paragraph (c).
(4) In section 44(2), for “an appointed member”, in both places it occurs, substitute “an elected member”.
(5) In section 45(2)(a), for “five” substitute “nine”.
(6) In section 46(b), for “two” substitute “three”.
(7) Omit sections 47 and 48.
(8) In section 49—
(a) omit subsection (4), and
(b) at the end, insert—
“(5) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a), a person who has automatically acquired a citizenship other than British nationality, including by way of birth or descent, shall not be considered to have done so by virtue of his or her own act.
(6) Any person who, prior to the entry into force of this subsection, renounced his or her automatically acquired citizenship and who subsequently re-acquires that citizenship shall not be disqualified from being an elected member of the Parliament by virtue of this acquisition notwithstanding subsection 1(a).”.
(9) Omit section 51(5).
(10) In section 53(3), omit “or an appointed”.
(11) Omit section 59(3).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1128/article/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/turks-and-caicos-islands-constitution-amendment-order-2024/article-9
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