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Defunct Houses of Assembly

  • The House of Assembly of South Africa, known in Afrikaans as the Volksraad, was the lower house of the whites-only parliament until 1981, when the Senate of South Africa was abolished. Following a new Constitution in 1984, it became one of three Houses of the Tricameral Parliament. Following the end of apartheid and the introduction of a new Constitution in 1994, it was replaced by a National Assembly.
  • The unicameral National Parliament of Papua New Guinea was known as the House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea before independence.
  • The unicameral Parliament of Gibraltar was known as the House of Assembly until 2006.

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