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of the House of Representatives, or a person qualified to 
become such elector, and must have been for three years at 
the least a resident within the limits of the Commonwealth 
a8 existing at the time when he ig chosen ; (2) must be 
a subject of the King, either natural-born or for at least 
five years naturalized under a law of the United Kingdom, 
or of a Colony which has become or becomes a state, or of 
the Commonwealth, or of a state. 
There are disqualified as members : Any person being a 
Senator, and any person who (1) is under any acknowledge- 
ment of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign 
power, or is a subject or a citizen, or entitled to the rights or 
privileges of a subject or a citizen, of a foreign power; or 
(2) is attainted of treason, or has been convicted and is 
under sentence, or subject to be sentenced, for any offence 
punishable under the law of the Commonwealth or of a state 
by imprisonment for one year or longer; or (3) is an un- 
discharged bankrupt or insolvent ; or (4) holds any office of 
profit under the Crown, or any pension payable during 
the pleasure of the Crown out of any of the revenues of the 
Commonwealth ; or (5) has any direct or indirect pecuniary 
interest in any agreement with the public service of the 
Commonwealth, otherwise than as a member and in common 
with the other members of an incorporated company con- 
sisting of more than twenty-five persons. By the Common- 
wealth Electoral Act, 1902, no person is entitled to be 
nominated as a member who is at the date of nomination, or 
was within fourteen days previously, a member of a State 
Parliament. Conviction for certain electoral offences dis- 
qualifies. A seat may be resigned, and is vacated by two 
months’ absence without leave, on the occurrence of any 
disqualification, bankruptcy or insolvency, and the accept- 
ance of a fee for services to the Commonwealth or in Parlia- 
ment to a state or private person. 
In New South Wales the qualification and disqualifications 
are as follows, under Act No. 32 of 1902, and No. 41 of 1906 :— 
The qualification for membership is being a man of or above 
twenty-one years of age, and a natural-born or naturalized 
British subject, unless disqualified.