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(c) increases or decreases the total number of elective
members of either House of the Legislature ; or
(d) concerns the election of the elective members of the
Legislature, or either House thereof, or the qualifi-
cations of electors or elective members.
(3) Section thirty-three of the Australian Constitutions
Act, 1842, shall apply to Bills reserved under this Act in like
manner as it applies to Bills reserved under that Act with
the substitution of references to a State forming part of the
Commonwealth of Australia for references to the colony of New
South Wales, and of references to both Houses of the Legisla-
sure of the State for references to the Legislative Council.
(4) So much of any Act of Parliament or Order in Council
as requires any Bill passed by the Legislature of any such
State to be reserved for the signification of His Majesty’s
pleasure thereon, or to be laid before the Houses of Parlia-
ment before His Majesty’s pleasure is signified, and, in
particular, the enactments mentioned in the Schedule to
this Act! to the extent specified in the third column of that
Schedule, shall be repealed both as originally enacted and as
incorporated in or applied by any other Act of Parliament
ar any Order in Council or letters patent.
As if these Imperial restrictions were not sufficient, the
Colonial Parliaments in Australia in passing their Constitu-
tion Acts added to the variety of the restrictions upon their
own powers. Thus in New South Wales alterations of the
constitution of the Legislative Council required to be passed
on the second and third readings by two-thirds majorities
of both Houses in each case. This provision was fortunately
repealed in 1857 as regards both Houses; there was an
attempt at the time to claim that the repeal was illegal, as
the clause could not be altered except by the two-thirds
majority required for the alteration of the Legislative Council
itself. This view, however, was definitely rejected at the
time, and is mainly interesting because it was revived later
on in Queensland. In that constitution analogous provisions
' 5 & 6 Vict. c. 76,5. 31 (in part); 7& 8 Vict. c. 74, ss. 7and 8; 13 & 14
Viet. c. 59, ss. 12 (in part), 32 (in part), 33; 18 & 19 Vict. cc. 54 and 55,
“. 3 (in part) ; 25 & 26 Vict. ¢. 11, 5. 2; 53 & 54 Vict. c. 26, s. 2 (in part).
? 18 & 19 Vict. ¢. 54,5. 36. In addition reservation and laying before
Parliament were required. Reservation is still necessary under 7 Edw. VII.
c. 7,8. 1 (1), but not apparently laying before Parliament.
