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after the said dissolution, may, notwithstanding anything 
contained in the Constitution Act, dissolve the Council and 
the Assembly simultaneously. 
(2) The Council shall be deemed to have failed to pass 
a Bill if the Bill is not returned to the Assembly within three 
months after its transmission to the Council and the session 
continue during such period. 
(3) Any Bill by which an alteration may be made in the 
constitution of the Council or Assembly or in Schedule D 
to the Constitution Act (other than such alterations as are 
referred to in s. 61 of the said Act) shall not be within the 
operation of the foregoing provisions of this section. 
(4) In s. 61 of the Constitution Act, after the words ‘or 
increase ’ there shall be inserted the words ‘ or decrease ’. 
This provision refers to alterations in the number of 
members of the Houses chosen for electoral provinces. 
(d) Queensland 
Under Acts 31 Vict. Nos. 21 and 38 and 60 Vict. No. 3 
the Legislative Council of Queensland consists of members 
unlimited in number—usually between forty and fifty— 
summoned by the Governor in His Majesty's name by an 
instrument under the Great Seal of the State. 
No person can be summoned who is not of the full age of 
twenty-one years and a natural-born subject of His Majesty, 
or naturalized by an Act of the Imperial Parliament or by 
an Act of the Legislature of New South Wales before 1859, 
or by an Act of Queensland. Not less than four-fifths of 
the members so summoned to the Legislative Council shall 
consist of persons not holding any office of ‘emolument 
ander the Crown, except officers of His Majesty's sca and 
land forces on full or half-pay or retired officers on pensions. 
No person who shall directly or indirectly himself, or by any 
t The date of the constitution of Queensland as a separate Colony. tis 
curious that naturalization in other Australian Colonies is not accepted 
(cf. the case of New South Wales, where the Act of 1902 still keeps the 
restriction to naturalization in New South Wales). Now naturalization is 
one for the Commonwealth, and the terms will include any one henceforth 
so naturalized, but hardly persons naturalized in one state before the 
Naturalization Act, 1803. In the other states the term ‘naturalized ’ is 
now defined so as to cover any person naturalized in any state. 
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