25. Staff  26. Class-child ratio  (10) No provision of this Constitution that any person or authority shall not be subject to  the direction or control of any other person or a uthority in the exercise of any functions under this  Constitution shall be construed as precluding a court of law from exercising jurisdiction in relation  to any question whether that person or authority has performed those functions in accordance  with this Constitution or any other law. (11) Where any power is conferred by this Constitution to make any Act, order, regulation  or rule, or to give any direction or instruction, the power shall be construed as including the power,  exercisable in like manner toamend or revoke any such Act, order, regulation, rule, direction or  instruction.  (12) Any reference in this Constitution to a law made before 30th September, 1966 shall  be construed as a reference to that law as it had effect on 29th September, 1966. (13) The Interpretation Act, 1889 shall apply, with the necessary adaptations, for the  purpose of interpreting this Constitution and otherwise in relation thereto as it applies for the  purpose of interpreting and in relation to Acts  of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. 1. (1) In this Schedule-  "by-election"  means an election to fill a vacancy a mong the Specially Elected Members occurring  otherwise than upon a dissolution of Parliament; "general election"  means an election to fill the vacancies among the Specially Elected Members  occurring upon a dissolution of Parliament; "the Speaker"  means the Speaker of the National Assembly; and "prescribed"  means prescribed by rules made under paragraph 2 of this Schedule. (2) At any time when the office of Speaker is vacant or the holder of that office is unable by reason of  absence or illness to exerci se the functions vested in him or her by this Schedule those functions may be  exercised by the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly or, if there is no Deputy Speaker or the Deputy  Speaker is unable by reason of absence or illness to exercise those funct ions, by such Member of the  Assembly (not being the President or Vice -President or a Minister or Assistant Minister) as the Assembly  may elect for that purpose. 2.  Subject to the provisions of this Schedule the National Assembly may make rules for the elec tion of its  Specially Elected Members.  3.  Elections of Specially Elected Members shall be conducted by the Speaker and, subject to the provisions  of this Schedule and of any rules made under paragraph 2 thereof, shall be conducted in such manner as  he or she may direct.  4. (1) The President shall nominate four candidates for election in the case of a general election and he or  she shall nominate one candidate for election in the case of a by -election.  (2) The names of the four candidates or, as the case m ay be, the name of the one candidate nominated  for election by the President under the foregoing subparagraph shall be presented to the National Assembly  in such manner as may be prescribed, and any Elected Member of the Assembly (other than the President  if he or she is an Elected Member) shall thereupon be entitled to nominate four candidates for election in the  case of a general election and one candidate for election in the case of a by -election.  (3) A list of the candidates nominated for election by t he President and the Elected Members of the  National Assembly under the foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall be prepared, and each Elected  Member of the Assembly shall be entitled to vote -  on the list so constituted.  (4) The vote of every Elected Member of the National Assembly shall be given by ballot in such a manner  as not to disclose how he or she has voted. (5) An ElectedMember of the National Assembly shall not cast more than one vote for any one  candidate.  ( a )  in the case of a general election, for four candidates ; and  ( b )  in the case of a by-election, for one candidate, Copyright Government of Botswana FIRST SCHEDULE TO THE CONSTITUTION  ( Section 58(2)(b) )  ELECTION OF SPECIALLY ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY 