924 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART IV 
128. This constitution shall not be altered except in the 
following manner :(— 
The proposed law for the alteration thereof must be passed 
by an absolute majority of each House of the Parliament, 
and not less than two nor more than six months after its 
passage through both Houses the proposed law shall be 
submitted in each state to the electors qualified to vote for 
the election of members of the House of Representatives. 
But if either House passes any such proposed law by an 
absolute majority, and the other House rejects or fails to 
pass it or passes it with any amendment to which the first- 
mentioned House will not agree, and if after an interval of 
three months the first-mentioned House in the same or the 
next session again passes the proposed law by an absolute 
majority with or without any amendment which has been 
made or agreed to by the other House, and such other House 
rejects or fails to pass it, or passes it with any amendment 
to which the first-mentioned House will not agree, the 
Governor-General may submit the proposed law as last pro- 
posed by the first-mentioned House, and either with or 
without any amendments subsequently agreed to by both 
Houses, to the electors in each state qualified to vote for the 
election of the House of Representatives. 
When a proposed law is submitted to the electors the vote 
shall be taken in such manner as the Parliament prescribes. 
But until the qualification of electors of members of the 
House of Representatives becomes uniform throughout the 
Commonwealth, only one-half the electors voting for and 
against the proposed law shall be counted in any state in 
which adult suffrage prevails. 
And if in a majority of the states a majority of the 
electors voting approve the proposed law, and if a majority 
of all the electors voting also approve the proposed law, it 
shall be presented to the Governor-General for the Queen’s 
assent. 
No alteration diminishing the proportionate representation 
of any state in either House of the Parliament, or the 
minimum number of representatives of a state in the House 
of Representatives, or increasing, diminishing, or otherwise 
altering the limits of the state, or in any manner affecting 
the provisions of the Constitution in relation thereto, shall 
become law unless the majority of the electors voting in 
that state approve the proposed law. 
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