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

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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JHAP, VI] THE LOWER HOUSES 481 aggregate period of three months; (7) persons who within one year prior to the holding of an election have been convicted of bribery, intimidation, impersonation, or any similar offence at any election; (8) persons who, during one year prior to the holding of an election have been convicted of being habitual drunkards, idle and disorderly persons, or incorrigible rogues, or rogues and vagabonds ; (9) any person against whom there is an unsatisfied order of any Court for the maintenance of his wife or children (whether legitimate or illegitimate) ; (10) any person who has been convicted of having committed an aggravated assault upon his wife within one year; (11) persons in the naval or military service on full pay. There are now ninety electorates, each returning one member : the number has reached 141, was then in 1902 reduced to 125, and further reduction is possible. The quorum is twenty. By a bill of 1910 the periods of residence were to be shortened,! and the poverty disqualification to be removed. Manhood suffrage dates from 1858, and in 1893 all plural voting and property qualification for non-resident electors disappeared. In 1903 female suffrage was introduced. In the case of Victoria the qualifications of electors under Act No. 1075 and amending Acts were as follows :— Every person-of the full age of twenty-one years, and not subject to any legal incapacity, who was a natural-born sub- ject of His Majesty, was qualified to vote at elections for the Legislative Assembly, if his name was on the roll of rate- paying electors, or if he was the holder of an elector’s right and his name was on the general or supplementary roll, or if he was the holder of a voter's certificate obtained under the provisions of s. 23 of Act No. 1601. The Act No. 1606 ‘known as the Plural Voting Abolition Act), assented to on August 30, 1899, provided, however, that it should not be lawful for any person on any one dav to vote in more than ! The bill will presumably become law in 1911. The periods will be six months in the Commonwealth, three in the State, and one in the division ; disqualifications (3) and (11) disappear, and absentee voting is provided for; see Parliamentary Debates, 1910, Sess. 2, pp. 910-49, 1000-47, 1163-74. 1979 re

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