Parliamentary Electorates and Elections (Further Amendment) Act 1927 (NSW)

Pariiamentary SLectorates and Elections (Further

Amendment) Act.

PAELIAMENTAEY ELECTORATES

AND ELECTIONS (FURTHER

AMENDMENT) ACT.

Act No. 30, 1927.

Gtorge V, An Act to provide for a further redistribution of the

»o, 80. State into electoral districts for the purpose of giving the rural districts a greater measure of representation in the Lc'gislative Assembly ; for this and other ])urposes to amend the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act, 1912, and certain other Acts; and for pur­ poses connected tlierewith. [Assented to, 14th March, 1927.]

T ) E it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty,

by and ivitli the advice and consent of the Legis­

lative Council and Legislative Assembly of IS'ew South

tYales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority

of the same, as follows :—

S&nrt title. 1. This Act may he cited as the “ Parliamentary

Electorates and Elections (Eurther Amendment) Act, 1927,” and shall be read . ■with the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act, 1912, as amended by subsequent Acts. The Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act, 1912, as so amended, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

as regards 2. In any distribution of electoral districts 'svliich

fu jtlies is directed to be made after the passing of this Act

disuiLition it shall he the duty of the Electoral Districts Com­ eleetor.'il

dsatriets.	missioners to provide a greater measure of representation of rural districts in the Legislative Assembly than is provided by the boundaries of electoral districts as ])ublisbed in the Gazette number one hundred and fifty- one of November eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred
and twenty-six. In

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In providing such greater measure of representation in any distribution wliicli is made after the passing of

this Act tlu! Electoral Districts Commissioners shall

increase, hy at least three, the numher of electoral	.
districts in the area (in this section referred to as “ the outside country area”) comprised in the following thirty-two electoral districts set forth in the ahove- mentioned Cazette, namely, Alhury, Armidale, Ashhurnham, Barwon, Batliurst, Byron, Castlereagh, Clarenc(', Cootamundra, Corowa, Gonlhurn, Hartley, Lachlan, Lismore, Liverpool Plains, Monaro, Mudgee, Murray, Murrumhidgee. Namoi, Orange, Oxley, Baleigh, South Coast, Sturt, Tamworth, Ternora, Tenterlield, Wagga Wagga, lYollondilly, 'Wollongong, and Young, and shall decrease accordingly the numher of electoral districts in the area (in this section referred to as “ the Cumherland-Northumherland area”) comprised in the remaining fifty-eight electoral districts set forth in that Gazette.
With respect to electoral districts in “ the outside •country area,” the Eleetoral Districts Commissioners may make such deduction not exceeding eight hundred from the quota as they deem necessary for giving (dTect to the provisions of this Act, and the quota as so reduccal shall he the quota for such electoral districts.
lYith respect to electoral districts in “ the Cumher- land-Korthumherland area” the Electoral Districts
Commissioners may make such addition not exceeding
eight hundred to the quota as they deem necessary for
giving effect to the provisions of this Act, and the quota

as so increased shall he the quota for such electoral	■
districts.
A distribution of electoral districts shall he made within six months after the passing of this Act.

3.       The provisions contained in the Principal Act and Provisions

the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections (Amtud-

ment) Act, 192ti, shall, so far as applicable, and subject redistribu-

to the provisions of this Act, apply to the further electorates,

redistribution of electoral districts after the commence­

ment of this Act, which further redistribution is hereby

authorised to be made.

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Uepeal of 4. (1) Upon the issue of the writs for the first

Act No. IS	general election after the passing of this Act to be
Act No. 0,
1920, and	conducted upon the basis of single seat electorates in
1921.	accordance with the provisions of the Principal Act as amended by tliis Act, the Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act, 1920, and the Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Amendment Act, 1921, shall cease to have effect.
(2) Any provisions of the Principal Act which were repealed either expressly or impliedly by the Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act, 1920, or the Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Amendment Act, 1921, shall as from the date upon which the said Acts cease to have effect be revived and are hereby re-enacted.
Provision for

dissolution 5. If the twenty-seventh Parliament of the State of

prior to	New South Wales is dissolved prior to the proclamation
proclamation
of new	of the new boundaries of ninety eleetoral districts in
electoral	accordance with the redistribution as provided for in this
districts.	Act, the general election next following the dissolution of the Parliament shall be conducted on the basis of the ninety electoral districts proclaimed in the Gazette number one hundred and fifty-one of November eighteenth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and in all respects as if this Act had not been passed.

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