The place of a member shall become vacant if for two consecutive months of any session of the Parliament he, without the permission of the House, fails to attend the House. After five years from the imposition of uniform duties of customs, the Parliament may provide, on such basis as it deems fair, for the monthly payment to the several States of all surplus revenue of the Commonwealth. Signification of Queen’s pleasure on Bills reserved A proposed law reserved for the Queen’s pleasure shall not have any force unless and until within two years from the day on which it was presented to the Governor‑General for the Queen’s assent the Governor‑General makes known, by speech or message to each of the Houses of the Parliament, or by Proclamation, that it has received the Queen’s assent. Any such officer who is not retained in the service of the Commonwealth shall, unless he is appointed to some other office of equal emolument in the public service of the State, be entitled to receive from the State any pension, gratuity, or other compensation, payable under the law of the State on the abolition of his office. *these two territories are jointly administered and are also known as the Indian Ocean Territories (IOTs) Until the Parliament otherwise provides, any question respecting the qualification of a senator or of a member of the House of Representatives, or respecting a vacancy in either House of the Parliament, and any question of a disputed election to either House, shall be determined by the House in which the question arises. Notwithstanding anything in section twenty‑four, the number of members to be chosen in each State at the first election shall be as follows: Provided that if Western Australia is an Original State, the numbers shall be as follows: Subject to this Constitution, the Parliament may make laws for increasing or diminishing the number of the members of the House of Representatives. For instance, in the sparsely populated frontier area of San Tin in Hong Kong, 85–90 percent of the able-bodied males left for the United Kingdom between 1955 and 1962 to work in British factories, foundries, railways, buses, hotels, and restaurants.
2) 1947Commonwealth Powers Act 1945‑1947, Amendment (Continuance) Act 1947Commonwealth Powers (De Facto Relationships) Act 2006Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition (Western Australia) Act 2007Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition (Tasmania) Act 2003Commonwealth Powers (De Facto Relationships) Act 2006Industrial Relations (Commonwealth Powers) Act 2009Sections 86 and 87—the headings for these sections have been added for compilation purposes. The Senate may not amend proposed laws imposing taxation, or proposed laws appropriating revenue or moneys for the ordinary annual services of the Government. Subject to this section, the maximum age for Justices of any court created by the Parliament is seventy years. 184] AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL LANGUAGE INSTITUTE AND DEFINE ITS POWERS AND DUTIES. The command in chief of the naval and military forces of the Commonwealth is vested in the Governor‑General as the Queen’s representative. This Act shall be known as “The National Defense Act.” ARTICLE I. Among the most significant laws on the Federal Register are:To find one of the many other titles available on the Federal Register, use the Search field at the top of every page.Choose a category for information and where to find it on the Federal Register of Legislation.To browse the categories for which tips are available, go to The Australian Government is organised into a number of portfolios. Sessions of Parliament. The President shall in all cases be entitled to a vote; and when the votes are equal the question shall pass in the negative.
This Constitution shall not be altered except in the following manner: The proposed law for the alteration thereof must be passed by an absolute majority of each House of the Parliament, and not less than two nor more than six months after its passage through both Houses the proposed law shall be submitted in each State But if either House passes any such proposed law by an absolute majority, and the other House rejects or fails to pass it, or passes it with any amendment to which the first‑mentioned House will not agree, and if after an interval of three months the first‑mentioned House in the same or the next session again passes the proposed law by an absolute majority with or without any amendment which has been made or agreed to by the other House, and such other House rejects or fails to pass it or passes it with any amendment to which the first‑mentioned House will not agree, the Governor‑General may submit the proposed law as last proposed by the first‑mentioned House, and either with or without any amendments subsequently agreed to by both Houses, to the electors in each State When a proposed law is submitted to the electors the vote shall be taken in such manner as the Parliament prescribes.
On the establishment of the Commonwealth, the collection and control of duties of customs and of excise, and the control of the payment of bounties, shall pass to the Executive Government of the Commonwealth. Every House of Representatives shall continue for three years from the first meeting of the House, and no longer, but may be sooner dissolved by the Governor‑General. The President shall cease to hold his office if he ceases to be a senator. On the imposition of uniform duties of customs all laws of the several States imposing duties of customs or of excise, or offering bounties on the production or export of goods, shall cease to have effect, but any grant of or agreement for any such bounty lawfully made by or under the authority of the Government of any State shall be taken to be good if made before the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety‑eight, and not otherwise. In the absence of other provision, each State shall be one electorate. [Commonwealth Act No. Every law in force in a Colony which has become or becomes a State, and relating to any matter within the powers of the Parliament of the Commonwealth, shall, subject to this Constitution, continue in force in the State; and, until provision is made in that behalf by the Parliament of the Commonwealth, the Parliament of the State shall have such powers of alteration and of repeal in respect of any such law as the Parliament of the Colony had until the Colony became a State. SECTION 1. 177 November 13, 1936 An Act amending and repealing some of the provisions of chapter Twenty-seven of act numbered Twenty-seven hundred eleven commonly known as the Administrative Code of nineteen hundred and seventeen, and providing funds to defray the necessary expenses due to the extension of the Civil Service Law to all branches and subdivisions of the … 119.