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

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UHAP. V1] THE LOWER HOUSES 485 or (b) having a leasehold estate of the annual value of twenty pounds, having not less than eighteen months to run, may elect to have his or her name entered on the electoral roll of the district in which such estate is situate. By the Act of 1905 no person is to have more than one vote, and female suffrage is established. Persons not entitled to vote include (1) any person who is of unsound mind ; (2) any person attainted of treason, or who has been convicted and is under sentence or subject to be sentenced for any offence punishable under the law of any part of the King’s dominions by imprisonment ; or (3) who during six months immediately preceding the sitting of the Registration Court, or the holding of the election, has been imprisoned without the option of a fine for an aggregate period of one month ; or (4) who during one year immediately prior to the sitting of the Registration Court, or the holding of the election, has been convicted of being an habitual drunkard, or has been convicted of drunkenness twelve times ; or (5) who has been convicted of being an idle or disorderly person, or an incorrigible rogue, or a rogue and vagabond ; or (6) who has against him an unsatisfied order of any Court for the maintenance of his wife or children ‘whether legitimate or illegitimate); or (7) who has been convicted of having committed an aggravated assault upon his wife within one year; (8) any aboriginal native of Australia, Asia, Africa, or the islands of the Pacific ; and (9) any person who is an inmate of any public charitable institu- tion for the reception, maintenance, and care of indigent persons, other than a hospital established under the statutes relating to hospitals. Before Act 1 Geo. V. No. 3 there were fifty electorates with one member, and eleven with two; now all seventy-two have one member. The quorum is sixteen. In South Australia the qualifications of electors are, under the Electoral Code, 1908, No. 971, being a natural-born or naturalized subject, male or female, married or unmarried, twenty-one years of age, enrolled before the issue of a writ, and not subject to any disqualification, and six months’ continuous residence in the State. Electors can transfer

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