Constitution Act 1934 (TAS)

Constitution Act 1934

An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts of this State relating to the Constitution

[Royal Assent 14 January 1935]

[The preamble Substituted by No. 46 of 2016, s. 4, Applied:15 Dec 2016] Whereas by an Act of Council intituled an Act to establish a Parliament in Van Diemen’s Land and to grant a Civil List to Her Majesty (known as the Constitutional Act and later as the Constitution Act ) passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria by the Governor and Legislative Council of the Colony of Van Diemen’s Land in pursuance of the provisions of an Imperial Act called the Australian Constitution Act 1850, it was enacted for the purpose of securing the peace, welfare, and good government of the said Colony, that in place of the said Legislative Council there should be one Legislative Council and one House of Assembly, constituted as therein provided, which should exercise all the powers and functions of the then existing Legislative Council, and that the Governor and Legislative Council and House of Assembly together should be called the Parliament of Van Diemen’s Land:And whereas Her said Majesty Queen Victoria, by Order-in-Council directed that, on and after 1st January 1856, the name of the said Colony should be changed to Tasmania:And whereas by force of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900, the said Colony, on the establishment of the said Commonwealth, was constituted and became a State of the Commonwealth of Australia:And whereas many of the provisions of the Constitution Act have been repealed or replaced, and numerous amendments have been made therein, and it is desirable to make certain other amendments therein, and that the said Act and its amendment should be consolidated in one Act:And whereas the Parliament, on behalf of all the people of Tasmania, acknowledges the Aboriginal people as Tasmania’s First People and the traditional and original owners of Tasmanian lands and waters; recognises the enduring spiritual, social, cultural and economic importance of traditional lands and waters to Tasmanian Aboriginal people; and recognises the unique and lasting contributions that Tasmanian Aboriginal people have made and continue to make to Tasmania:

Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows: