540 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART Ix 
are entirely employed by the Commonwealth Government, 
and Members of the Board of Land Purchase Commissioners. 
A member may resign his seat, and his seat is vacated 
it he becomes a subject of a foreign power, is bankrupt or 
insolvent, becomes a public defaulter, is attainted of treason, 
or convicted of felony, or of any infamous crime, becomes 
insane, is absent without leave for an entire session, accepts 
any office of profit from the Government except a ministerial 
office or pension, or contracts for the public service unless 
as a member of an incorporated company of more than six 
persons, or becomes a member of the Commonwealth Parlia- 
ment.! 
The electors of the Legislative Council are qualified by 
being adult subjects, natural-born or naturalized of either 
sex of 21 years of age and upwards, having freehold estate 
in the electoral district of £10 a year or being the occupier 
of property of the value of £30 a year, or being a graduate 
of any University in the British Dominions, a qualified legal 
or medical practitioner, an officiating minister of religion, 
an officer or retired officer of His Majesty’s Army or Navy 
on actual service, or a retired officer of the Volunteer Force 
of Tasmania. 
2. It is provided by s. 33 of the Constitution Act, 1855, 
that all Bills for appropriating any part of the revenue or 
for imposing any tax, rate, duty, or impost shall originate 
in the House of Assembly. 
3. There is no legal provision for removing differences 
which may arise between the two Houses of Parliament in 
Tasmania, whether with regard to financial matters or to 
general legislation. 
§4 NEW ZEALAND 
Under the Legislature Act, 1908, No. 101, the Legislative 
Council of New Zealand consists of members unlimited in 
number summoned for life in the case of persons summoned 
before 1891, or for seven years in other cases, by the Gover- 
* There are similar provisions as to the House of Assembly. See above. 
p. 498,