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.