Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1933 (WA)

1933.] Constitution. [No. 25.

CONSTITUTION.

24° GEo. V., No. XXV.

No. 25 of 1933.

AN ACT to amend Section six of the Constitution Act, 1889, and Sections thirty-two, thirty-four, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, and thirty-nine of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act, 1899.

[Assented to lst December, 1933.]

HEREAS doubts have arisen as to members of the

WParliament of Western Australia having committed

breaches of the provisions of section six of the Constitution Act, 1889, or of sections thirty-two, thirty-four, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, or thirty-nine of the Constitution Acts Amend- ment Act, 1899, or of any one or more of the provisions of the said sections, or having incurred any disqualifications or penalties thereunder by acceptance of the office of a member of the Commission appointed under section three of the Lot- teries (Control) Act, 1932, and of a fee as remuneration for their services as provided for in the said section: And whereas it is desirable to resolve such doubts: Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative As- sembly of Western Australia, in the present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. This Act may be cited as the Constitution Acts Amend-

ment Act, 1933.

2.

Notwithstanding the provisions of section six of the Constitution Act, 1889, or sections thirty-two, thirty-four, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, and thirty-nine of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act, 1899, no disability, disqualification, or

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penalty shall be incurred by any person who is at present both a member of Parliament and a member of the Commis- sion constituted under the Lotteries (Control) Act, 1932, by reason of having accepted or continuing to hold before or after the commencement of this Act the office of a member of the said Commission, or any emolument pertaining to that office, but no such office or emolument arising therefrom shall be held or enjoyed by any such member of Parliament beyond the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four.