Legislative Council Act Amendment Act 1886 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO

VICTORIIE REGLNJE

No. 10

An Act to increase the number of Members to serve in

the Legislative Council.

[Assented to 28th July, 1886.

HEREAS it is expedient to increase the number of Members xylogse, 52 nc.,

by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof,

as follows :—

to serve in the Legislative Council: Be it enacted by His n-3

W Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies,

1. The whole of the second section and so much of the third Repeal of Is

50 VICTORLE. No. 10

The Legislative Council Act Amendment Act, 1886

Vie.,24, sees. 2, and fourth sections and of Schedule B of ' The Legislative Council

Act Amendment Act, 1882,' as is inconsistent with this Act and the

Schedules hereto are hereby repealed.

Council to eon-

sist of 26 mem-	2. From and after the coming into operation of this Act the Legis- lative Council shall consist of twenty-six members, nine of whom (being one-third of the next greater number which is divisible by three) shall be appointed by Her Majesty according to the provisions of an Act of the Imperial Parliament in that behalf in part recited in the Ordinance passed in the 33rd year of Her present Majesty, Num- ber 13, and seventeen of whom shall from time to time be elected as by law is provided.
bers
Sub-division of	3. The Northern District,' as defined by ' The Legislative Council Act Amendment Act, 1882; shall be divided into two electoral dis- tricts. The one shall consist of such portions of the said Northern District ' as are contained within the boundaries as laid down in the Schedule annexed hereto, marked A : ' such district shall be called
Northern
District'
Kimberley	the Kimberley District,' and shall return one member. The other
District	district shall consist of such portions of the said ' Northern District' as are contained within the boundaries as laid down in the Schedule
Northern	annexed hereto, marked B: ' such district shall be called the
District	' Northern District,' and shall return two members.
Sitting members	4. The two members at present sitting in the Legislative Council Act Amendment Act, 1882,' shall, from and after the coming into operation of this Act, and during the continuance of the present Council, be deemed and taken to sit for the Northern District' only as defined by this Act.
to keep their,

seitts for the Northern District,' as defined by the • Legislative Council

• April," May,'5. The words ' April," May,' and June,' wherever the same re-	The words
' dime,' occurring spectively occur in sections, seven, eight, nine, ten, and eleven of the in "rd 13l Ordinance passed in the 33rd year of the reign of Her present Majesty,
tO be read a s
'November,
December '

' numbered 13, shall for the purposes of the making up and revision of

ilf or the first Electoral List for the Kimberley Electoral District be read as

revision of Cyst follows :— November' instead of April," December ' instead of

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May,' and January ' instead of June.'

Short title 6. This Act may be cited for all purposes as The Legislative Council Act Amendment Act, 1880.'

F. NAPIER BROOME,

GOVERNOR.

SCHEDULE A

KIMBERLEY DISTRICT

So much of the Colony as lies to the North of the parallel of (19° 30') nineteen degrees thirty minutes South Latitude.

SCHEDULE B

NORTHERN DISTRICT

Bounded on the North by the Kimberley District ; on the West by the Sea Coast, including the Islands adjacent to it ; on the South by the Gascoyne Dis- trict, and on the East by the Eastern boundary of the Colony