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SECUR'DO
VICTORIB REGINB.
No. 717,
An Act to amend "The Australasian Federation
Enabling Act (South Australia), 1895"
[Asseuted to, March 8t12, 1899.1
AS, ~ursuant | to " The Austdasian Federation Enabling Preamble. |
principl ,4ct, a Federal Constitution for Australasia, hereinafter W"""" Act (Sonth Australia), 1895," hereinafter referred to as the
referred to as the C'olnmonwealth Bill, was framcd by the Austral- asian Fcdwal Convention, and was finally adopted at hfelbourne on the sixteenth day of March, one tliousand eight huildred and ninety-
eight: Aid whereas the C~ommonwealth Bill was afterwards submitted
to the electors in New South Walcs, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania, and in all these coloiiics was accepted hy majorities of the electors voting, but in Kew South Wales the number of votes folu the acceptance of the Bill did not reach the required minimum: And whereas it is now proposed that the Cornmonwcalth Bill should be amended in the particulars specified in Parliamentary Paper laid before both Housrs of Parliament on tllc twenty-eighth day of Febrnarv, one thousand eight huildrecl and ninety-nine, and as so amended should be submitted to the electors, and if accepted by majorities of the electors voting should afterwards be capable of being transmitted hy both Houses of Parliament for Imperid enact- ment-Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Parliament of South Australia, as follows:
1. This Act may be cited as " The Commonwealth Bill Amend- short title.
61" & 62' | VICTORIR, No. 717. |
The | Commonwealth Bill | Amenrime nt A c t. 1 8 9 9. |
Amended Common-
wealth Bill may be | 2, The Commonwealth Bill as proposed as aforesaid to be |
submitted to electors |
and tranemitted fur | amended shall - |
enactment. | ( a ) Be submitted to the electors for the House of Assembly in South Australia for acceptance or rejection by direct vote, |
and, if accepted by a majority of the electors voting, may
afterwards
( b ) Be transmitted by both Houses of | Parliament for legislative |
enactment by the Imperial Parliament.
Date of submission. | 3, The date for the submission to the electors shall in each |
district be the date to be fixed for polling at the next general
elections for the House of Assembly.
F O ~ | of question. | 4, The question to be proposed in the ballot paper shall be- |
'c -4re you in favor of the amended Commonwealth Rill? "
Incorporation. | 5. This Act shall be incorporated with the principal Act, and, except so far ss inconsistent with this Act or inapplicable thereto, the provisions of the principal Act relating to the submission of the Commonwealth Bill to thc electors and its transmisvion for legis- lative enactment shall apply to the Cominonwealth Bill as proposed |
to be amended. |
I n the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to
thia Bill.
S. J. WAY, Lieutenant-Governor.
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Adelaide : By authority, C. E. BRISTOW, | Government Printer, North Terrace. |