Members to be deemed to have signed roll of membership etc
10(1)Each person who was a member of the Assembly (see sub-paragraph (3)) immediately before the time at which this Schedule comes into force shall be deemed to have signed the roll of membership of the Transitional Assembly at that time in accordance with standing orders.
(2)Each such person shall be deemed to have designated himself at that time in accordance with standing orders—
(a)as a Nationalist (if, immediately before that time, he was designated as a Nationalist for the purposes of the Assembly);
(b)as a Unionist (if, immediately before that time, he was designated as a Unionist for the purposes of the Assembly);
(c)otherwise, as Other.
(3)In this paragraph “the Assembly” means the Assembly established under paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the 2006 Act.