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3. PARLIAMENT (1) Until other constituencies are established for Saint Lucia by order in pursuance of section 58 of the Constitution and the order has come into effect there shall, for the purposes of the election of members of the House, be 17 constituencies having the same boundaries as the constituencies into which Saint Lucia is divided immediately before the commencement of the Constitution for the purpose of the election of elected members of the House under the former Constitution and those constituencies shall be deemed to have been established under that section. (2) The persons who, immediately before the commencement of the Constitution, are elected members of the House under the former Constitution shall, as from the commencement of the Constitution, be deemed to have been elected in pursuance of the provisions of section 33 of the Constitution in the respective constituencies corresponding to the constituencies by which they were returned to the House and shall hold their seats in the House in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution. (3) The persons who, immediately before the commencement of the Constitution, are nominated members of the House under the former Constitution shall vacate their seats in the House at the commencement of the Constitution but shall be eligible for appointment as Senators in pursuance of the provisions of section 24 of the Constitution. (4) The persons who, immediately before the commencement of the Constitution, are respectively the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker and the Leader of the Opposition shall be deemed as from the commencement of the Constitution to have been elected as Speaker and Deputy Speaker or, as the case may be, appointed as leader of the Opposition in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and shall hold office in accordance with those provisions. (5) Until Parliament otherwise provides, any person who holds or acts in any office the holding of which would, immediately before the commencement of the Constitution, have disqualified Laws of Saint Lucia Saint Lucia Constitution Order Cap. 1.01 179 Revision Date: 31 Dec 2006 him or her for membership of the House under the former Constitution shall be disqualified to be elected as a member of the House or appointed as a Senator as though provisions in that behalf had been made in pursuance of sections 26 and 32 of the Constitution. (6) The rules of procedure of the House under the former Constitution as in force immediately before the commencement of the Constitution shall, until it is otherwise provided by the House under section 53(1) of the Constitution be the rules of procedure of the House but they shall be construed with such modifications, adaptations, qualifications and exceptions as may be necessary to bring them into conformity with the Constitution. (7) Subject to the provisions of section 55 of the Constitution, Parliament shall, unless sooner dissolved, stand dissolved on 6 June 1979 (that is to say, 5 years from the first sitting of the House after the last dissolution of Parliament under the former Constitution). (8) For the purposes of section 58(2) of the Constitution, a report of the Constituency Boundaries Commission shall be deemed to have been submitted on 19 November 1973 (that is to say, the date of the submission of the last report of the Standing Committee of the House under section 49 of the former Constitution).