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AN ACT for determining the Divisions in Western Australia for which Members of the Federal House of Representatives shall be chosen, and the Number of Members for each Division.

[Assented to, usth December, 1900.]

HEREAS by Part III. of Chapter I. of the Act of the Imperial Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, it is amongst other s632& 64 W .

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things provided that, until the Parliament of the Commonwealth otherwise provides, the Parliament of any State may make laws for determining the Divisions in each State for which Members of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Commonwealth may be chosen by such State, and the number of Members to be chosen for each Division : And whereas the Colony of Western Australia is an original State in the Commonwealth of Australia: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and

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Legislative Assembly of -Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows

(that is to say) :—

1.     THIS Act may be cited as the Federal House of Repre-

Short title and nom-

mencement.

sentatives Western Australian Electorates Act, 1900, and shall come

into operation on the first day of January, 1901.

2.      IN this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

Meaning of " elec- " Electoral District " means Electoral District for the Legis-

toral district" and lative Assembly as described in The Constitution Act

division."

Nos. 1075, 1427. Amendment Act, 1899 ;

" Minister " means the Minister administering this Act.

3.      FOR the purpose of the election of Members of the House

Division of Western

Australia into elec- of Representatives of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of torates for Federal Australia, Western Australia shall be and the same is herebyHouse of Repre-

sentatives. divided into five Federal Electorates. Each of such Federal

Electorates shall choose one Member for the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Commonwealth.

Boundaries, sub-4. THE names of the said Federal Electorates shall be those

divisions, and names set forth in column one of the Schedule to this Act, and each of electorates. Federal Electorate shall consist of the Electoral Districts set forth in

Schedule.

column two of the said Schedule opposite to the names of the said

Federal Electorates respectively.

Application of the5. EXCEPT that no elector shall vote more than once at the

laws of Western election of representatives, the Laws in force for the time being Australia relating to relating to the conduct of elections for the Legislative Assembly,elections.

the persons entitled to vote at such election, the proceedings before, at, and subsequent to such elections and to all incidental matters shall, so far as the same are applicable, and so far as this Act does not otherwise prescribe, apply mutatis mutandis to elections held under this Act.

Voters to be ques- 6. THE Presiding Officer may challenge a voter as to his right

tioned as to having

to vote by requiring an answer to the questions numbered (1), (3),

voted before.

and ( 4), contained in the one hundred and fifth section of the Electoral Act, 1899, and is hereby required to put to every voter the following question :—

Sec Commonwealth,

Have you already voted, either here or in any other Electorate

and, unless the answer is in the negative, the Returning Officer shall

reject the vote.

etc., Act, s. 30.

in Western Australia, at this election of members for

the Federal House of Representatives ?

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Every elector wilfully making a false answer to any question put to him under this section shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding two years.

7. THE Governor may make regulations for the rettun of the Regulations.

writs for elections to be held under this Act, and otherwise for

carrying into effect the provisions of this Act.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

A LEX. C. ONSLOW, Administrator.

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SCHEDULE.

Section 3.

FEDERAL ELECTORATES IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA RETURNING MEMBERS TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.

Column 1. Column 2.

Electoral Districts included in Federal

Name of Federal Electorates. Electorates.

1. Mt. Barges 2. Coolgardie 3. Cue

4. East Kimberley 5. West Kimberley

COOLGARDIE

6. Mt. Magnet

7. Mt. Margaret

8. Menzies

9. North Murchison

10. Pilbarra

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11. Yilgarn

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1. Claremont

2. Cockburn Sound

3. Fremantle

4. East Fremantle

FREMANTLE

5. North Fremantle

6. South Fremantle

7. Murray

8. South Perth

1      1. Boulder 2. Dundas

KALGOORLIE

3. Harman's 4. Kalgoorlie

5. MUMMA.

1. Albany

2. Beverley

3. Bunbury

4. Gascoyne

5. Geraldton

6. Greenough

SWAN

7. Irwin 8. Moore 9. Murchison

10. Nelson

11. Northam

12. Plantagenet

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Column 1. Column 2.

Electoral Districts included in Federal

Name of Federal Electorates. Electorates.

13. Roebourne

14. South-West Mining

15. Sussex

16. Swan

SWAN (continued) ...

17. Toodyay

18. Wellington

19. Williams

20. York

1. Guildford

2. Perth

3. East Perth

PERTH

4. North Perth 5. West Perth 6. Subiaco

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