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legislation which adopted the provisions in the constitution. 
The provisions were again adopted with regard to New South 
Wales by s. 3 of the Constitution Act, and also by the same 
section of the Constitution Act of Victoria. Bills, therefore, 
affecting the election of the elected members of the Legisla- 
tive Council of Victoria! or altering the laws concerning the 
qualification of electors or elected members of the Legislative 
Assembly of either Victoria or New South Wales required 
to be reserved and laid before Parliament. In the case of 
Tasmania there was no such provision, and reservation of such 
Bills was not required unless they also fell within the terms 
of s. 31 of the Act of 1842. In the case of South Australia 
8. 34 of the Constitution Act of 1855-6 required that any 
Bills altering the Constitution of the Legislative Council or 
House of Assembly should be reserved, but not that they 
should be laid before Parliament. In the case of Western 
Australia, as in the case of New South Wales and Victoria, 
the provisions of the Act of 1850 were repeated in the Con- 
stitution Act of 1890, and Bills of the classes mentioned were 
required to be reserved and laid before Parliament. The 
same result arose in the case of Bills of Queensland by the 
operation of the letters patent of June 6, 1859. 
The result of these Acts was constant confusion and 
difficulty. It is sufficient to note that the Electoral Act, 
No. 10 of 1856, of South Australia was in error not reserved 
by the Governor, and thus the whole constitution of the 
Parliament elected under its terms was vitiated, so that an 
Imperial Act of 1862 2 had hastily to be passed to cure the 
defects, and further doubts had to be removed by the 
Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865. Moreover, under fresh 
difficulties later Acts were required, and Bills of New South 
Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, and 
Tasmania were validated in 1893, and in 1901 a set of New 
South Wales, Queensland, and Western Australia laws were 
validated, having not been passed with proper formalities. 
The Upper House of New South Wales is nominee, 
'25 & 26 Vict. c. 11. See also 26 & 27 Viet. c. 84. See Blackmore, 
Constitution of South Australia, Pp. 38 seq.