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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896934455

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

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAP. VI] THE LOWER HOUSES 483 him to vote at any election for the district until the coming into force of the next general or supplementary roll in which his name could properly be included. Persons not entitled to vote included foreigners who are not naturalized subjects of His Majesty, and those who do not possess the qualifications, or whose names have been removed from the rolls under the Purification of Rolls Acts, Nos. 1242 and 1601. Manhood suffrage has existed prac- tically since 1858, female since 1909. and plural voting dis- appeared in 1899. Under an Act of 1910 the electoral franchise has been simplified. It was proposed by the Government in the Bill which they introduced in the Legislative Assembly to remove altogether the possibility of one elector being registered in more than one division, but after a conference between the two Houses a compromise was arrived at under which, in addition to being registered in the district in which he is resident, an owner of property or a holder of a leasehold created for not less than one year shall be entitled to be registered in the division in which his property is situated. He can, of course, only vote once at an election, but he will be able to vote in another division at a by-election. There are sixty-five divisions, each returning one member. The quorum is twenty. Under this Act of 1910, No. 2288, ss. 11-13, the franchise is extended to every person of full age who has resided six months in Victoria and in any district for one month pre- ceding the date of any electoral canvass or of his claim for enrolment. Change of residence within the same division or to another: division of the same district does not alter the right to vote, and a change of district leaves a voter entitled to vote for the old district for three months after his change of residence, until his name is transferred to the roll of the new district. A person who is enrolled in respect of residence as an elector for the Assembly may also be enrolled on the general roll if he has a freehold estate and his name appears on the citizen or burgess roll, or a separate list for Melbourne or Geelong, or on the municipal roll, or a separate voters’ list for any municipality, or if he is a lessee, under a T1i2

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