Legislative Council Act Amendment Act 1873 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA,

ANNO TRICESIMO SEPTIMO

VICTORDE REGINA:.

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No. XXII.

AN ACT to increase the number of Members to serve in the Legislative Council and further to regulate Elections.

[Reserved 29th July, 1873.]

[Royal Assent Proclaimed, 15th January, 1874.]

HEREAS it is expedient to increase the number of members

provisions with respect to candidates at elections of members toWto serve in the Legislative Council and to make farther

serve in the said Council; Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows :-

1 FROM and after the passing of this Act the Legislative Lenislative Council to con- Council shall consist of Twenty-one members seven of whom being sist of twenty-one members. one-third part of the whole number of members shall be appointed

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by Her Majesty according to the provisions of the Act in that behalf in part recited in an , Ordinance passed in the thirty-third year of the Reign of Her said Majesty and fourteen of whom shall from time to time be elected as in the said Ordinance provided.

Two additional Electoral 2 TWO additional Electoral Districts shall be formed. The

Districts, one shall consist of certain parts of the present districts of Fremantle and Wellington the other of certain parts of the present district of Geraldton. The former shall be called the district of the " Murray and the Williams " and the latter the " Northern District." Such Electoral Districts shall return each one member to serve in the Legislative Council.

Boundaries. 3 THE boundaries of the Fremantle Web gton and Geraldton

Electoral Districts and of such additional Electoral Districts shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed and taken to be the bound- aries set forth in the Schedule hereunto annexed.

Repeal. 4 SO much of sections one two and four of the 33rd Victoria

No. 13 and the Schedule thereunto annexed marked A as is inconsistent with the present Act and Schedule annexed is hereby repealed.

Members at present sitting 5 THE members at present sitting in the Legislative Council

for Fremantle Wellington for the districts of Wellington Fremantle and Geraldton respectivelyand Geraldton to retain

their seats. shall from and after the passing of this Act be deemed and taken to

sit for and represent the said districts respectively as defined in the Schedule to this Act and not those districts heretofore belonging to such districts which by this Act compose the two additional electoral districts.

Candidates for election to , 6 ANY person who shall be a candidate for election as a

give 10 days' notice thereof inember of the Legislative Council of Western Australia shall by

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to Retuning Officer. himself or by his agent give notice in writing of his intention thereof to the Returning Officer of the district for which he is a candidate at least ten days before the day of election in such district ; and the said Returning Officer shall give notice of the intention of such person to become such candidate by affixing a notice to that effect on the Court House door of his district and

certain occasions, however that if a day shall be hereafter appointed for holding any Only five days' notice on keeping the same there affixed until the day of election. Provided

election within fourteen days of any day fixed by Proclamation for holding any Session of the Legislative Council or during the time

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that the said Council shall be in Session it shall not be incumbent upon any candidate to give more than five days' notice in the manner hereinbefore provided.

7 THIS Act may be cited for all purposes as " The Legislative Short Title.

Council Act Amendment Act, 1873."

I reserve this Bill for the signification of Her Majesty's

pleasure thereon.

FRED. A. WELD, Governor.

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SCHEDULE.

1.—Electoral District of Fremantle.

Bounded on the West by the Sea Coast, including Rottnest, Garden, Carnac, and Penguin Islands. On.the North by the south boundaries of Pengui n

Perth District. the South by an East and West line three and a-half miles South from the Narrogin Inn, extending East from the Sea Coast•at a spot about one mile North from Point James to its junction with the Perth District boundary.

2.—Electoral District of Geraldton.

Bounded on the South by an easterly line from the mouth of the Green- ough River to the summit of Wizard Peak, then by an easterly line to the Coal Seam in the bed of the Irwin River, and then by a true East line. On the West by the Sea Coast, including the adjacent islands ; and on the

North by the 27th degree of South Latitude.

3.—Electoral District of Murray and. Williams.

Bounded on the West by the Sea Coast. On the North by the Perth, Fremantle, and York districts. On the South by an East line from the Sea Coast through Mount William to the Murray River, then by that river upwards to Monger's Brook, then along said Brook and the Hillman River to the Arthur River, then along that river upwards to its head, and then by a due East line.

4.—Electoral District of Wellington.

Bounded on the West by the Sea Coast; on the North by the Murray and Williams District boundary; and on the South by a due East line from the junction of the Blackwood, Beaufort, and Balgarrup Rivers, thence by the Blackwood River downwards (inclusive of all locations and leased lands on both its banks) to the junction of Padbury Brook, then by a North-westerlyline to the South-west corner of Location .171 on the River Cape1, then by

that river downwards (including the appropriated lands having frontage on it), and by a true West line to the Sea Coast through the North end of Wonnerup Inlet.

Bounded on the South by the North boundary of Geraldton District. On 5.—Electoral District of the North.

the North and West by the Sea Coast, including the adjacent islands; nod

on the East by the eastern boundary of the Colony.

By Authority: Menem:, PETXEE, Government Printer, Perth.