ELECTORAL
DIVISIONS.
No. 9 of 1903.
An
Act relating to Elections.
[Assented
to 11th September, 1903.]
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 &c.
1. This
Act may be cited as the Electoral
Divisions Act 1903, and shall be construed and read as one with the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902.
Divisions
under State law to be deemed Divisions under Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902.
2. Where
under a law of a State, made in pursuance of the Constitution, the State is at
the commencement of this Act distributed into Electoral Divisions equal in
number to the number of members of the House of Representatives to be chosen
therein, those Electoral Divisions shall, until both Houses of the Parliament
have passed a resolution approving of a proposed distribution of the State into
Divisions, be taken to be Divisions within the meaning of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902.
Amendment
of Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902,
sec. 19.
3. Section
nineteen of the Commonwealth Electoral
Act 1902