1 Ave oly that day shall be deemed to have complied with the requirements of this Constitution or any other law in force in Rhodesia not being in conftict with this Constitution, relating to the taking of oaths on appointment to such office. (3) Subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall not apply to any person who, being required by the Prime Minister, a Minister or a person assigned thereto verbally or in writing by the Prime Minister or a Minister, to state forthwith whether he accepts this Constitution and will take an oath of loyalty in the form set out in the First Schedule, refuses to do so. If he agrees to accept this Constitution he shall forthwith take the said oath of loyalty before a Judge. Magistrate, fustice of the Peace or Commissioner of Oaths (4) The office of any such person who refuses to accept this Constitution on being required to do so in terms of subsection (3) of this section and refuses to take the oath of loyalty in terms of that subscction sball be deemed to have become vacant imme- diately before the appointed day and such person shall not be entitled to any compensation for his loss of office. (5) The office of Chief shall be deemed to be an office for the purposes of this section. 126. (1) The Legislative Assembly of Southern Rhodesia in existence immediately prior to the appointed day shall be deemed to have been duly constituted as the Parliament of Rhodesia under this Constitution, and the provisions of section 125 shall apply, mutatis mutundis, to the Speaker, Deputy Speaker and Clerk of the Legislative Assembly and the other officials of that Assembly and the offices held by them (2) The persons who were members of the Legislative Assembly immediately prior to the appointed day shall be deemed to be duly clected Members of the Parliament constituted by this Constitution and the provisions of section 125 shall apply, nutans mutandis, to such persons and the offices held by them. (3) In calculating the period of five years for the purposes of subsection (3) of section 39 in relation to the first Parliament mentioned in subsection (2) of this section that Parliament shall be deemed first to have met on the 9th June, 1965. 127. (1) The persons who immediately prior to the appointed day are members of the Governor's Council constituted under the old Constitution shall be the first members of the Executive Council established by section 49 and shall be deemed to be appointed thereto and to hold office therein in accordance with the relevant provisions of this Constituțion, veם 1 ve
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