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Short title and commencement.

Meaning of "elec

toral district" and "division."

Nos. 1075, 1427.

Division of Western

Federal House of Representatives W.A. Electorates.

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows (that is to say):—

1. THIS Act may be cited as the Federal House of Representatives Western Australian Electorates Act, 1900, and shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1901.

2. IN this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,

"Electoral District means Electoral District for the Legislative Assembly as described in The Constitution Act. Amendment Act, 1899;

"Minister" means the Minister administering this Act.

3. FOR the purpose of the election of Members of the House Australia into elec. of Representatives of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of torates for Federal Australia, Western Australia shall be and the same is hereby divided into five Federal Electorates. Each of such Federal Electorates shall choose one Member for the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Commonwealth.

House of Representatives.

Boundaries, sub

divisions, and names of electorates. Schedule.

Application of the laws of Western

elections.

4. THE names of the said Federal Electorates shall be those set forth in column one of the Schedule to this Act, and each Federal Electorate shall consist of the Electoral Districts set forth in column two of the said Schedule opposite to the names of the said Federal Electorates respectively.

5. EXCEPT that no elector shall vote more than once at the election of representatives, the Laws in force for the time being Australia relating to relating to the conduct of elections for the Legislative Assembly, the persons entitled to vote at such election, the proceedings before, at, and subsequent to such elections and to all incidental matters shall, so far as the same are applicable, and so far as this Act does not otherwise prescribe, apply mutatis mutandis to elections held under this Act.

Voters to be ques

voted before.

6. THE Presiding Officer may challenge a voter as to his right tioned as to having to vote by requiring an answer to the questions numbered (1), (3), and (4), contained in the one hundred and fifth section of the Electoral Act, 1899, and is hereby required to put to every voter the following question:

See Commonwealth,

etc., Act, s. 30.

Have you already voted, either here or in any other Electorate in Western Australia, at this election of members for the Federal House of Representatives?

and, unless the answer is in the negative, the Returning Officer shall reject the vote.

Every

Federal House of Representatives W.A. Electorates.

Every elector wilfully making a false answer to any question put to him under this section shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding two years.

7. THE Governor may make regulations for the return of the writs for elections to be held under this Act, and otherwise for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act.

Regulations.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

ALEX. C. ONSLOW, Administrator.

SCHEDULE.

Federal House of Representatives W.A. Electorates.

Section 3.

SCHEDULE.

FEDERAL ELECTORATES IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA RETURNING MEMBERS TO THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH
OF AUSTRALIA.

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