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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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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520 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART 111 for a term of six years, half retiring every three years, from June 30, the date having been changed from December 31 to June 30 by Act No. 1 of 1907. The quorum is a third. The senator must be of the full age of twenty-one years, and must be an elector entitled to vote at the election of members of the House of Representatives, or a person qualified to become such elector, and must have been for three years at least a resident within the limits of the Commonwealth as existing at the time that he is chosen. He must be a subject of the King, either natural-born or for at least five years naturalized under a law of the United Kingdom, or of a Colony which has become or becomes a state, or of the Commonwealth, or of a state! Any person who— (i) Is under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power ; or (ii) Is attainted of treason, or has been convicted and is under sentence, or subject to be sentenced, for any offence punishable under the law of the Commonwealth or of a state by imprisonment for one year or longer ; or (iii) Is an undischarged bankrupt or insolvent ; or (iv) Holds any office of profit under the Crown, or any pension payable during the pleasure of the Crown out of any of the revenues of the Commonwealth ; or (v) Has any direct or indirect pecuniary interest in any agreement with the public service of the Commonwealth otherwise than as a member and in common with the other members of an incorporated company consisting of more than twenty-five persons—shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a Senator.2 But subsection iv does not apply to the office of any of the King’s Ministers of State for the Commonwealth, or of any of the King’s Ministers for a state, or to the receipt of pay, half-pay, or a pension by any person as an officer or member of the King’s navy or army, or to the receipt of pay 28 an officer or member of the naval or military forces of ‘8. 34, * 88. 43-5. These provisions apply also to the House of Representa- tives. Women are apparently eligible ; Harrison Moore, Commonwealth of Australia, p. 130. They have stood, but none has vet been elected.

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