Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1934 (WA)

No. 40.] Constitution. [1934.

CONSTITUTION.

25° GEO. V., No. 'XXXIX.

No. 40 of 1934.

AN ACT to amend section fifteen of the Constitution

Acts Amendment Act, 1899.

[Assented to 4th January, 1935.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byCouncil and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:—

Short title.	1. This Act may be cited as the Constitution Acts Amend- ment Act, 1934, and shall be read as one with the Constitu- tion Acts Amendment Act, 1899 (63 Victoria, No. 19), here- inafter referred to as the principal Act.
Amendment

of s. 15. 2. Section fifteen of the principal Act is amended by

(a) striking out the whole of the second proviso to the

section and substituting the following:

"Provided also that-

(i) no aboriginal native of Australia, Asia (except British India), Africa or Islands of the Pacific (except New Zealand), or person of the half-blood, shall be entitled to be regis- tered unless he is a person who was registered as an elector prior to the thirty-first day of December, 1933, but the disqualifications cre- ated by this paragraph of this proviso shall not apply to any person who is a naturalised subject;

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(ii) no elector possessing more than one qualifica- tion within a province shall be thereby en- titled to be registered more than once for that province";

(b) adding the following paragraph at the end of the

section :-

"In this section 'naturalised subject' means a person who has obtained a certificate of naturali- sation under the laws of the United Kingdom, or under the laws of the Commonwealth, or any State of the Commonwealth, and whose certificate of naturalisation is still in force and has been in force for at least twelve months before making the claim."