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the practice, but it cannot be said to have been generally 
admitted. 
{t was provided by s. 31 of the Imperial Act of 1842 2 that 
all Bills except Bills for temporary laws declared urgent 
should be reserved :— 
(1) Altering or affecting the divisions or extent of the 
several districts and towns which should be represented in 
the Legislative Council, or establishing new and other 
livisions of the same ; or 
(2) Altering the number of the members of the Council to 
be chosen by the said districts and towns respectively ; or 
(3) Increasing the whole number of the Legislative 
Council ; or 
(4) Altering the salaries of the Governor, Superintendent? 
or Judges (this requirement so far as regards the Judges was 
repealed by 13 & 14 Vict. ¢. 59, s. 13). 
This section as originally enacted applied only to Bills 
passed by the Legislative Council of New South Wales. It 
was subsequently applied to the Legislative Councils of 
Victoria, Van Diemen’s Land, South Australia, and Western 
Australia, by the Act 13 & 14 Vict. c. 59, 8. 12, and it was 
incorporated in the letters patent of June 6, 1859 (clauses xiv 
and xxii), and thereby applied to Queensland. Its provisions 
were applied to Bills passed by the Parliament of New South 
Wales by s. 3 of the New South Wales Constitution Act of 
1855. Apparently theprovisions applied after 1855 to both the 
Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council of that Colony, 
and of course from the first to both houses in Queensland. 
In the case of Victoria the provisions were similarly applied 
by s. 3 of the Victoria Constitution Act of 1855. They were 
also applied to Western Australia by s. 2 (e) of the Western 
Australia Constitution Act of 1890. Apparently also in 
virtue of 8. 12 of the Act of 1850 they applied also to both 
houses of the Parliament of Tasmania. and in virtue of the 
* Jenkyns, British Rule and Jurisdiction beyond the Seas, App. ii, takes 
2 different view of the position from that here adopted. But the Act of 
1907 renders discussion otiose. 
V5 & 6 Viet. ¢. 76. 
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