This Act may be cited as the Legislature Amendment Act, 1913, and shall come into operation on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

Subsection three of section two of the Legislature Act, 1908, is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of the definition of “Civil servant” the words “provided that such members do not exceed ten in all, two of which number must be Maoris or half-castes.”

Section two hundred and fifty-one of the Legislature Act, 1908, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following subsections:—

The Second Ballot Act, 1908, is hereby repealed. The Legislature Amendment Act, 1910, and the Legislature Amendment Act, 1911, shall hereafter be read and construed as if all references therein to a second ballot were omitted.

Section eighteen of the Legislature Act, 1908, is hereby amended by striking out the words “one hundred” in the ninth line, and inserting in lieu thereof the words “two hundred and fifty.”