530 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [part i 
person whatsoever in trust for him or for his use or benefit 
or on his account, undertake, execute, hold and enjoy in the 
whole or in part any contract or agreement for or on account 
of the public service, shall be capable of being summoned 
to the Legislative Council. This does not extend to any 
contract or agreement made by an incorporated company or 
trading company consisting of more than twenty members. 
Members of the Council hold office for life, but a Legislative 
Councillor may resign his seat by letter to the Governor, and 
his seat is vacated if he (1) shall fail for ten successive sessions 
of the Council to give his attendance without the permission 
of His Majesty or the Governor ; or (2) shall take any oath, 
or make any declaration or acknowledgement, of allegiance, 
obedience, or adherence to any foreign prince or power, or 
shall do, concur in, or adopt any act whereby he may become 
a subject or citizen of any foreign state or power, or whereby 
he may become entitled to the rights, privileges, or immunities 
of a subject or citizen of any foreign state or power ; or (3) 
shall become bankrupt or take the benefit of any law relating 
to insolvent debtors ; or (4) become a public contractor or 
defaulter ; or (5) be attainted of treason or convicted of 
felony or of any infamous crime; or (6) accept an office 
under the Crown other than a ministerial office or become 
a member of the Federal Parliament.! 
2. It is provided by s.- 2 of the Constitution Act, 1867, that 
all Bills for ‘ appropriating any part of the public revenue 
or for imposing any new rate, tax, or impost shall originate 
in the Legislative Assembly >. The exact force of this 
clause has formed the subject of a report of the Privy Council 
on reference from the two Houses in 1886, to which reference 
will be made in the next chapter. 
3. By an Act, No. 16 of 1908, provision is made for the 
submission of certain Bills to the electors in the case of 
differences between the two Houses :— 
3.—(1) For the purposes of this Act a Bill shall be deemed 
bo have been rejected a first time whenever such Bill has, 
* There are similar provisions with regard to members of the Legislative 
Assembly. See above, p. 496.