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Legislature
- EnglishThe National Assembly shall consist of eighty members elected in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution. (Sec. 56)
Legislature
- English
(1) Parliament shall consist of eighteen members or such greater number as is prescribed by law.
(2) For the purpose of the election of members of Parliament, Nauru shall be divided into constituencies.
(3) Unless otherwise prescribed by law, the constituencies and the number of members of Parliament to be returned by each of the constituencies are those described in the Second Schedule.
… (Art. 28)
Legislature
- English
1. The National Assembly shall have a maximum of fifty-five members, elected from each Dzongkhag in proportion to its population, provided that no Dzongkhag shall have less than two members or more than seven members, for which purpose Parliament shall, by law, provide for each Dzongkhag to be divided into constituencies through appropriate delimitation, and for the voters in each constituency directly electing one member to the National Assembly.
... (Art. 12) - Dzongkha
༡) འབྲུག་གི་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་འདི་ནང་ མི་རློབས་ཀྱི་ཆ་ཚད་དང་བསྟུན་རྫོང་ཁག་ཚུ་ལས་ བཙག་འཐུ་ གྲུབ་པའི་ འཐུས་མིའི་གྲངས་བསྡོམས་མཐོ་ཤོས་ལྔ་བཅུ་ང་ལྔ་འོང་དགོཔ་ཨིན་ དེ་ཡང་ རྫོང་ཁག་གཅིག་ལུ་ འཐུས་མི་ གཉིས་ལས་ མ་ཉུངམ་ཅིག་དང་ བདུན་ལས་མ་ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ ཡོད་དགོ་པའི་ཁར་ དེའི་དོན་ལུ་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ འོས་འཚམས་ལྡན་པའི་ བཅད་མཚམས་བཟོ་སྟེ་ རྫོང་ཁག་རེ་རེ་བཞིན་དུ་འདེམས་ཁོངས་ཚུ་ལུ་དཔྱ་བགོ་རྐྱབ་ཐངས་དང་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་ འདེམས་ཁོངས་རེའི་ཚོགས་རྒྱན་སྐྱུར་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ འཐུས་མི་རེ་ཐད་ཀར་དུ་ བཙག་འཐུ་འབད་ནིའི་སྐོར་ལས་ ཁྲིམས་ཐོག་བཀོད་དགོ།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༢༽
Legislature
- EnglishThere shall be a Parliament of Botswana which shall consist of the President and a National Assembly. (Sec. 57)
Legislature
- EnglishThere shall be a Parliament of Dominica which shall consist of the President and a House of Assembly. (Sec. 29)
Legislature
- EnglishSubject to the provisions of section 44, any person who
(a) is a citizen of Barbados of the age of twenty-one years or upwards; and
(b) has such connection with Barbados by residence therein as may be prescribed by Parliament, shall be qualified to be elected as a member of the House of Assembly. (Sec. 43)
Legislature
- EnglishIn order to be a male or female senator one is required to be a male or female Dominican in full exercise of civil and political rights, to have reached twenty-five years of age, to be a native of the territory that elects him or to have resided in it for at least five consecutive years.
… (Art. 79) - SpanishPara ser senadora o senador se requiere ser dominicana o dominicano en pleno ejercicio de los derechos civiles y políticos, haber cumplido veinticinco años de edad, ser nativo de la demarcación territorial que lo elija o haber residido en ella por lo menos cinco años consecutivos.
… (Art. 79)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Majlis Al-Shoura shall be constituted. Its law shall determine the structure of its formation, the method by which it exercises its special powers and the selection of its members. The King shall have the right to dissolve the Majlis Al-Shoura and re-form it. (Basic Law, Art. 68)
- Arabicينشأ مجلس الشّورى، و يبيّن نظامه طريقة تكوينه، و كيفية ممارسته لإختصاصاته، و إختيار أعضائه. و للملك حلّ مجلس الشّورى و إعادة تكوينه. (النّظام الأساسي، المادّة 68)
Legislature
- English
The Senate shall consist of a number of members determined by law, not less than 180 members. Two-thirds of the members of the Council shall be elected by direct secret universal suffrage. The President of the Republic shall appoint the remaining third and the elections shall be held in accordance with the law. (Art. 250)
- Arabic
يُشكل مجلس الشيوخ من عدد من الأعضاء يُحدده القانون على ألا يقل عن (180) عضواً. وينتخب ثلثا أعضائه بالإقتراع العام السري المباشر، ويعين رئيس الجمهورية الثلث الباقي. ويجرى انتخاب وتعيين أعضاء مجلس الشيوخ على النحو الذي ينظمه القانون. (المادّة 250)
Legislature
- English…
2. Each constituency shall freely elect any person, subject to this Constitution and an Act of Parliament, to represent it as a member of the National Assembly in such manner as may be prescribed by this Constitution or an Act of Parliament. (Sec. 62)