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Article 52 1. Subject to this Article , a person elected as President shall hold office for a term of five years - a. beginning with the date next following the date of election; or b. where another person holds office as President on the date next following the date of election, beginning on the date next following the date on which the office next becomes vacant. 2. A person shall hold office as President under this Constitution for not more than three terms. 3. The office of President becomes vacant - a. an the expiration of the period specified in clause (1); b. where an election for the office of President is held before the expiration of five years referred to In clause (1), on the day following the date of declaration of the election of President; or c. where the incumbent dies or resigns or is removed from office under this Constitution. 4. Where, but for this clause, the office of President would become vacant on a particular date by reason of the operation of clause (3)(a), but on that date an election held under Article 51 has not resulted in the election of the President, the incumbent President shall continue to hold office until the end of the day on which the President is elected under Article 51. 5. The President may, by writing addressed to the Speaker, resign from the office of President. 6. Where a period of public emergency subsists at the time when the term of office of President would end, the National Assembly may, by resolution approved by a majority of the members of the Assembly, extend the term of office of President - where Seychelles is at war, for not more than twelve months at a time but up to a maximum aggregate period of forty-eight months, and a period of extension shall not extend beyond the duration of the current session of the National Assembly or beyond the period by which the session of the National Assembly is extended in the same circumstances under this Constitution.