Constitution Amendment Act 1894 (SA)

ANNO QTJINQUAGESIMO SEPTIMO ET QUIMQUA-

GE3IMO OCTAVO

A. D. 1894.

No. 613.

An Act to amend the Constitution.

[Reserved, D e c e ~ ber zzst , 1894 .]

E it Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Aus- Pwawble.

13 tralia, with the advice and consent of the 1,rgirlative Council

and House of Assembly of the said province, in this present Parlia

ment assembled, as follows:

1. The right to vote for persons to sit in Parliament as members Extenhn of

franchbeo

of the Legislative Council, and the right to vote for persons to sit in tended to women.

2. Women shall possess and may exercise the rights hereby Quacaoationa.

granted, subject to the same qualifications and in the same manner

as men.

hereby amended, so far as may be necessary to give effect to this Act. effect to this Act.' 3. A11 Constitution and Electoral Acts and all other laws are Acts amended togive

she will be absent from the electoral district or not, shall be entitled 4, (1) Every female voter, whether she has reason to believe Mode of~oting.

at any time after the issuing of the writ to apply for a certificate

in one of the forms, as the case may be, of the Schedule A to "The

Absent Voters Electoral Act, 1890," from the Returning Officer that she is registered as IL voter upon the electoral roll and entitled to vote at the forthcoming elections.

613 (2) The

57' & 58" VICTOKIE, No. 613.

The Constitution Amedment Act,-- l &94.

( 2) The application hereinbefore mentioned need not contain the mi tkrs set f&h in paragraph 3 of the application in Schedules A

and B of the Act No. 57? of 1893; but in lieu thereof the applicant

shall declare that she is resident more than three miles from the nearest polling-place, or that by reason of the state of her health she will probably be unable to vote at the polling-place on polling day.

(3) The provisions of 'The Absent Voters Electoral Act, 1890," and the said Act No. 577 of 1893 shall, except so far as inconsistcnt with the provisions in sub-sections (l) and (2) of this clause, apply to every female voter.

short title. 5, This Act may be cited as L( The Constitution Amendment,

1894." \

I reserve this Act for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure.

KIN'I'ORE, Governoi.. ..

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Adelaide : By authority, C. E. Bars~ow, Government Printer, N~rth-temcer