A bicameral body, it consisted of an appointed Senate and an elected Legislative Assembly.
A new constitution was promulgated on 18 July 1961, replacing the unicameral Legislative Council with the legislature.
The new body consisted of a 13-member Senate and a 36-member Legislative Assembly.
Both houses convened for the first time on 5 October 1961, when members elected Rahman Gajraj as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and Ashton Chase as President of the Senate.
[1] Further constitutional amendments in 1964 scrapped the legislature, replacing it with a unicameral House of Assembly.