COMMONWEALTH FRANCHISE.
No. 8 of 1902.
An Act to provide for an Uniform Federal
Franchise.
[Assented to 12th June, 1902.]
BE it
enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia as follows :—
Short title.
1. This Act
may be cited as the Commonwealth
Franchise Act 1902, and shall be incorporated and read as one with the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902.
Application of
Act.
2.This
Act shall not affect any election of a new member to fill any vacancy occurring
in the House of Representatives during the continuance of the present House of
Representatives.
Persons entitled
to vote.
3. Subject
to the disqualifications hereafter set out, all persons not under twenty-one
years of age whether male or female married or unmarried—
(a)
Who have lived in Australia for six months
continuously, and
(b)
Who are natural born or naturalized subjects of
the King, and
(c) Whose names are on the Electoral Roll for
any Electoral Division,
shall be entitled to vote at the election of
Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Disqualifications.
See sec. 44 sub-sec. ii. of the Constitution.
4. No
person who is of unsound mind and no person attainted of treason, or who has
been convicted and is under sentence or subject to be sentenced for any offence
punishable under the law of any part of the King’s dominions by imprisonment
for one year or longer, shall be entitled to vote at any election of Members of
the Senate or the House of Representatives.
Disqualification
of coloured races.
No
aboriginal native of Australia Asia Africa or the Islands of the Pacific except
New Zealand shall be entitled to have his name placed on an Electoral Roll
unless so entitled under section forty-one of the Constitution.
One adult one
vote.
See s. 30
of the Constitution.
5.