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which he or she seeks to be registered ; (5) had his or her 
name upon the electoral roll of a municipality or a roads 
board in respect to any property within the electorate ; or (6) 
was resident in the electoral district at the time of claiming 
registration. Aboriginals, or half-castes, of Asia, Australasia, 
or Africa, were not entitled to vote, except in respect of free- 
hold qualifications. Under the Electoral Act, No. 27 of 1907, 
ss. 17, 18, the option of a property qualification disappears, 
and with it incidentally the aboriginal and half-caste franchise 
altogether. Plural voting is not allowed. The suffrage was 
extended to women by the Act 63 Vict. No. 19, ss. 3,21. The 
amending Act of 1907 requires six months’ residence in 
Western Australia, and one in the electoral district. 
There are fifty electoral districts, each returning one 
member. The quorum is seventeen. 
The disqualifications are, under s. 18 of the Act of 1907, 
(1) unsoundness of mind ; (2) sole dependence on state or 
charitable relief other than hospital relief ; (3) attainder of 
treason, and conviction and sentence for a crime punishable 
by imprisonment for a year or more in any part of the 
King’s dominions, and (4) being an aboriginal native of 
Australia, Asia, Africa, or the Islands of the Pacific, or a 
person of the half blood. 
In Tasmania the qualifications of electors are as follows, 
ander the Act 64 Vict. No. 5, and amending Acts, 3 Edw. VII. 
No. 13, and 7 Edw. VII. No. 6. 
Every person of the age of twenty-one years, not subject 
to any legal incapacity, who is a natural-born or naturalized 
subject of His Majesty, or who has received letters of deni- 
zation or a certificate of naturalization, and has been resident 
in Tasmania for a period of twelve months, shall be entitled 
to be registered as an elector, and, as such, qualified to vote 
at the election of a member to serve in the House of Assembly 
for the district in which he resides. 
Persons not entitled to vote include any person, although 
qualified, if he (1) is, at the time of the sitting of the Revision 
! An attempt was made by Mr. Scaddan in 1911 to secure the alteration 
of the clause to allow Maoris a vote, but unsuccessfully. He also tried to 
seeure the franchise for half-castes.