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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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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486 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART LIL their names from the electoral roll of one district to another. Claims and transfer forms are obtainable from the returning officer, registrars, and all post offices. Persons not entitled to vote include (1) any person who has been attainted of treason or has been convicted and is under sentence for an offence punishable in any part of His Majesty’s dominions by one year’s imprisonment or more (i.e. one who has not received a free pardon for such offence, or served the sentence for it); (2) any person brought into the Northern Territory of South Australia under the Northern Territory Indian I mmagration Act, 1882, and any person residing in the Northern Territory, unless a natural-born or naturalized subject of His Majesty, of European nationality, or a citizen of the United States, naturalized as a subject of His Majesty ; and (3) any insane person. The Northern Territory is now a part of the Commonwealth, and Act No. 1029 has reduced the number of members to forty and the quorum to fifteen ; nine districts counting three members each, two four, and one five. By s. 21 there is no plural voting. Manhood suffrage dates from 1856. and womanhood from 1894. In Western Australia the qualifications of electors were as follows under the Constitution Acts Amendment Act, 18991: Every person who had resided in Western Australia for six months was entitled to be registered as a voter, and after six months to vote, who was (1) twenty-one years of age and not subject to any legal incapacity ; (2) a natural- born or naturalized subject (for six months) of the King; (3) had in possession within the electoral district for which he or she ought to be registered, either a freehold estate of the value of £50 above all charges and incumbrances ; a lease- hold estate of the clear annual value of £10; or held a pastoral, agricultural, occupation, or mining lease, or licence from the Crown, subject to the payment of at least £5 per annum ; (4) was a householder occupying any house, ware- house, counting-house, office, shop, or other building of the clear annual value of £10 within the electoral district for ! 63 Viet. No. 19, s. 26, and now Act No. 27 of 1907, amended considerably by Act No. 44 of 1911, Sec Parliamentary Debates, 1910-1, pp. 3192 scq.

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