house, noun
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- EnglishShow more Special senses of general English house the building in which a legislative or deliberative assembly meets, (transferred) this assembly.
historical
1. House of Assembly:
a. From 1852 to 1910, the lower house of the parliament of the Cape Colony; Volksraad sense 1 b.
1852 Ordinance 29 in G.W. Eybers Sel. Constit. Doc. (1918) 45There should be within the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope a Parliament, to consist of the Governor, a Legislative Council, and House of Assembly.
1909 H.E.S. Fremantle New Nation 38A representative Select Committee of the Cape House of Assembly unanimously agreed to insert clauses in an Education Bill providing that..every English or Dutch child should learn both languages.
b. From 1910 to 1961, the lower house of the parliament of the Union of South Africa; from 1961 to 1984, the lower house of the parliament of the Republic of South Africa.
1909 S. Afr. Act in G.W. Eybers Sel. Constit. Doc. (1918) 537There shall be a provisional council in each province consisting of the same number of members as are elected in the province for the House of Assembly.
c1988 S. Afr. 1987–8: Off. Yrbk (Bureau for Info.) 121The bicameral legislature comprised a House of Assembly whose members..were elected by simple majority..and a senate.
c. In the tricameral parliamentary system (1984–1994): the chamber consisting of, and representing, white people. Also attributive.
2. House of Delegates: In the tricameral parliamentary system (1984–1994), the chamber consisting of, and representing, South Africans of Indian descent; HoD.
1983 Act 110 in Govt Gaz. Vol.219 No.8914, 28The House of Delegates shall consist of- (a) 40 members.
1991 A. Maimane in Weekly Mail 15 Feb. 17I asked the only other person in the lift if he was a member of the House of Delegates. He might look like one of them, he replied, but he wasn’t an Indian: he, too, was coloured.
3. House of Representatives: In the tricameral parliamentary system (1984–1994), the chamber consisting of, and representing, those officially classified as coloured persons.
1983 Act 110 in Govt Gaz. Vol.219 No.8914, 28The House of Representatives shall consist of- (a) 80 members each of whom shall be directly elected.
1989 Reader’s Digest Illust. Hist. of S. Afr. 467Under the 1983 Constitution Act the South African Parliament consists of three legislative houses: the House of Assembly for Whites; the House of Representatives for Coloured people; and the House of Delegates for Asians.
From 1852 to 1910, the lower house of the parliament of the Cape Colony; Volksraad sense 1 b.
From 1910 to 1961, the lower house of the parliament of the Union of South Africa; from 1961 to 1984, the lower house of the parliament of the Republic of South Africa.
In the tricameral parliamentary system (1984–1994): the chamber consisting of, and representing, white people. Also attributive.
House of Delegates:In the tricameral parliamentary system (1984–1994), the chamber consisting of, and representing, South Africans of Indian descent; HoD.
House of Representatives:In the tricameral parliamentary system (1984–1994), the chamber consisting of, and representing, those officially classified as coloured persons.
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