Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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480 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART ul to have his name placed on an Electoral Roll unless so entitled under s. 41 of the Constitution.l No person shall be entitled to vote more than once at the same election. There are seventy-five constituencies, divided among the States as follows: New South Wales, 27; Victoria, 22; Queens- land, 9; South Australia, 7; and Western Australia and Tasmania, 5 apiece. The quorum is a third. In the case of New South Wales? the qualifications of electors are as follows :— All adults of the age of twenty-one years, natural-born or naturalized British subjects, not disqualified or incapaci- tated, can claim to have their names enrolled for any polling place for the electoral district in which they reside, and to vote therefor, provided they have had their principal place of abode in the State for a continuous period of one year or for a year in the Commonwealth and six months in the State (or if a naturalized subject for one year after naturalization) and have resided within the electoral district in which they claimed to be enrolled for a continuous period of three months immediately prior to the day of such claim, one month’s residence being sufficient to obtain a transfer from one electorate to another. Persons not entitled to vote include : (1) persons not natural- born or naturalized subjects ; (2) persons of unsound mind ; (3) persons in receipt of aid from any public charitable institution (except as a patient under treatment for accident or disease at a hospital); (4) persons in prison under any conviction, or (5) convicted of any crime or offence, wherever committed, for which, if it had been committed in New South Wales, they might have been lawfully sentenced to death or penal servitude, and have not received a free pardon therefor, or served the sentence passed on them ; (6) persons who during six months preceding the holding of an election have been imprisoned without the option of a fine for an * This section provides that any adult person who has or acquires a vote at clections for a Lower House in a State cannot be deprived of the Common- wealth franchise so long as he has the State vote. See below, p. 521, n. 1. * See Acts No. 33 of 1902, No. 1 of 1903, No. 41 of 1906, No. 18 of 1910.

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