Section 164: Existing Parliament.

(1) Parliament constituted by the existing Constitution (hereinafter referred to as “the existing Parliament”) shall be deemed to be the Parliament established by this Constitution during the period beginning with the commencement of this Constitution and end with the first dissolution of Parliament thereafter, and the existing members thereof shall be deemed to have been elected or appointed in accordance with the provisions of this (2) All existing members of Parliament shall make a declaration that they arc members of the Recognised Party. (3) Members of Parliament not members of the Recognised Party who do not within a period of 24 days of the coming into effect of this Constitution make a declaration in declaration in writing to the Speaker that they have applied for Membership of the Recognised Party or become accepted as members thereof, shall be presumed to have vacated their seats in Parliament on the 25th day after the coming into effect of this Constitution, and the Speaker shall so certify. (4) The Constituencies into which Sierra Leone was divided immediately before the commencement of this Constitution and until other provision is made in that behalf in accordance with this Constitution shall be deemed to be the Constituencies into which Sierra Leone is divided in pursuance of Section 40 of this Constitution; and the persons who, immediately before the commencement of this Constitution, are the elected members of the existing Parliament representing these constituencies shall be deemed as from the commencement of this Constitution to have been elected to Parliament in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution as the elected members representing the respective constituencies corresponding to those constituencies and shall hold their seats in accordance with those provisions until the next dissolution of Parliament. (5) The .registers of voters having effect immediately before the commencement of this Constitution for the purposes of elections to the existing, Parliament shall, as from the commencement of this Constitution, have effect as if they have been compiled in pursuance of this Constitution. (6) The persons who, immediately before the commencement of this Constitution, are members of Parliament appointed by the President pursuant to the provisions in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of Section 20 of the existing Constitution, shall be deemed as from the commencement of this Constitution to have been appointed Members of Parliament in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of Section 43 of this Constitution, and shall hold their seats in accordance with those provisions until the next dissolution of Parliament or until their appointments are revoked by the President. (7) The persons who, immediately before the commencement of this Constitution, are the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the existing Parliament shall be deemed as from the commencement of this Constitution to have been elected as Speaker and Deputy Speaker of Parliament in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution and shall hold office in accordance with those provisions. (8) Until Parliament otherwise provides, any person who holds or acts in any office the holding of which would, under the existing law, be a disqualification for election to Parliament, shall be deemed not to be so disqualified as though provisions in that behalf had been made in pursuance of this Constitution. (9) The Standing Orders of the existing Parliament as in force immediately before the commencement of this Constitution shall until it is otherwise provided by Parliament, be the Standing Orders of Parliament, but they shall be construed with such modifications, adaptations, qualifications and exceptions as may be necessary to bring them into conformity with this Constitution. (10) Any person who, by virtue of this Section, is deemed as from the commencement of this Constitution to have been elected as Speaker or any other Member of Parliament shall be deemed to have taken and subscribed any necessary oath under this Constitution. Delegated Powers and