WESTERN AUSTRALIA
ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO SEPTIMO
VICTORIIE REGINLE
No. 14
An Act to amend The Constitution Act; 1889.'
[Assented to 13th October, 1893.
| Preamble | HEREAS it is provided by the seventy-third section of ' The WAustralia shall have full power and authority from time to time, byConstitution Act, 1889,' that the Legislature of Western |
| any Act, to repeal or alter any of the provisions of the said Act : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legis- lative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :- | |
| Short title, com- | 1. This Act may be cited as The Constitution Act Amendment Act, 1893,' and shall, except as provided by section fourteen, come into operation on the eighteenth day of October, 1893, and is divided into Parts, as follows :— |
| mencement, and | |
| division |
Part L--Sections 3 to 13.—LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Part IL—Sections 14 to 22.—LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
Part III.—Sections 23 to 27.— GENERAL.
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The Constitution Act Amendment Act, 1893
2. (1) So much of The Constitution Act, 1889,' hereinafter called Repeal
the Principal Act, as is mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act, FW't Schedule
is hereby repealed as from the respective times mentioned in the said
Schedule.
(2) Such repeal shall not affect
(a) Anything done or omitted to be done under any enact-
ment repealed by this Act ; nor
(b) Any duty imposed or liability or disqualification
incurred under any enactment so repealed ; nor
(c) Any penalty or other punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any enactment so repealed ; nor
(d) The institution or continuance of any proceeding or other remedy, whether under any enactment so repealed or otherwise, for ascertaining any such liability or disqualification, or enforcing or recover- ing any such penalty or punishment as aforesaid.
PART I
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
| Legislative Council constituted by that Act shall not cease to exist on Comic'! | 3. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Principal Act, the New Legislative |
the coming into operation of Part III. of the said Act, but shall con- tinue and subsist until the issue of the writs for the first general election of members to serve in the Legislative Council constituted by this Act, when such last-mentioned Legislative Council shall take the place and have all the powers, functions, and privileges of the Legis- lative Council constituted by the Principal Act. Except as provided by section forty-three of the Principal Act, all the provisions thereof relating to the Legislative Council, except the enactments repealed by this Act, shall apply to the Council constituted under this Act.
4. The Legislative Council shall consist of twenty-one elected constitution of
members, who shall be returned and shall sit for Electoral Provinces council
as hereinafter stated and defined.
5. The Colony shall be divided into seven Electoral Provinces, Electoral which shall return in all twenty-one members to…