480 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART ul
to have his name placed on an Electoral Roll unless so
entitled under s. 41 of the Constitution.l
No person shall be entitled to vote more than once at
the same election.
There are seventy-five constituencies, divided among the
States as follows: New South Wales, 27; Victoria, 22; Queens-
land, 9; South Australia, 7; and Western Australia and
Tasmania, 5 apiece. The quorum is a third.
In the case of New South Wales? the qualifications of
electors are as follows :—
All adults of the age of twenty-one years, natural-born
or naturalized British subjects, not disqualified or incapaci-
tated, can claim to have their names enrolled for any polling
place for the electoral district in which they reside, and to
vote therefor, provided they have had their principal place
of abode in the State for a continuous period of one year or
for a year in the Commonwealth and six months in the State
(or if a naturalized subject for one year after naturalization)
and have resided within the electoral district in which they
claimed to be enrolled for a continuous period of three
months immediately prior to the day of such claim, one
month’s residence being sufficient to obtain a transfer from
one electorate to another.
Persons not entitled to vote include : (1) persons not natural-
born or naturalized subjects ; (2) persons of unsound mind ;
(3) persons in receipt of aid from any public charitable
institution (except as a patient under treatment for accident
or disease at a hospital); (4) persons in prison under any
conviction, or (5) convicted of any crime or offence, wherever
committed, for which, if it had been committed in New
South Wales, they might have been lawfully sentenced to
death or penal servitude, and have not received a free pardon
therefor, or served the sentence passed on them ; (6) persons
who during six months preceding the holding of an election
have been imprisoned without the option of a fine for an
* This section provides that any adult person who has or acquires a vote
at clections for a Lower House in a State cannot be deprived of the Common-
wealth franchise so long as he has the State vote. See below, p. 521, n. 1.
* See Acts No. 33 of 1902, No. 1 of 1903, No. 41 of 1906, No. 18 of 1910.
