_Constitution of Legislative Body._
[Sidenote: Constitution of Irish Legislative Body.]
9.--(1.) The Irish Legislative Body shall consist of a first and second
order.
(2.) The two orders shall deliberate together, and shall vote together,
except that, if any question arises in relation to legislation or to
the Standing Orders or Rules of Procedure or to any other matter in
that behalf in this Act specified, and such question is to be
determined by vote, each order shall, if a majority of the members
present of either order demand a separate vote, give their votes in
like manner as if they were separate Legislative Bodies; and if the
result of the voting of the two orders does not agree the question
shall be resolved in the negative.
[Sidenote: First order.]
10.--(1.) The first order of the Irish Legislative Body shall consist
of one hundred and three members, of whom seventy-five shall be
elective members and twenty-eight peerage members.
(2.) Each elective member shall at the date of his election and during
his period of membership be bona fide possessed of property which--
(a.) if realty, or partly realty and partly personalty,
yields two hundred pounds a year or upwards, free of all
charges; or
(b.
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