Removal Act, 1900. CHAPTER 8. An Act to remove Electoral Disabilities which may arise BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and 1.—(1.) A person shall not be disqualified for being registered Absence of for voting, either as a parliamentary or as a local government person in performance elector, in respect of a qualification for which any residence or of military inhabitancy is required, by reason only that during the whole or duties not to any part of the qualifying period he has as a member of the disqualify as Reserve, Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Forces, or otherwise as a volunteer, been absent on actual military service on behalf of the Crown, whether beyond the seas or not. (2.) A person so absent shall not be disqualified by reason of his wife or children having received poor relief during such absence. (3.) The claim to be registered as a lodger may be made and signed, in the case of a person so absent, by any other person on his behalf, and the form of the claim and declaration may in those cases be modified accordingly. (4.) In this Act the expression "a volunteer" shall include any person who is enlisted for temporary service only in connection with any war as a member of the regular forces. elector. 2. This Act may be cited as the Electoral Disabilities (Military Short title. Service) Removal Act, 1900. 3. This Act shall apply only to absence during the continuance Duration of of the present war in South Africa. Act. CHAPTER 9. An Act to authorise the grant out of Police Funds of E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: Family allow reservists on 1.-(1.) Where a constable of a police force within the meaning ances for police of this Act belongs to the Army Reserve, and has been called out active service. for permanent service in pursuance of the Royal Proclamation of the seventh day of October one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, the police authority may, if they think fit, grant out of the police fund, to or for the benefit of his wife and children, or any of them, or in the case of an unmarried man to or for the benefit of any person whom he is legally liable to maintain and towards whose support he has regularly contributed, an allowance of such amount and subject to such conditions and restrictions as they think equitable. 3 & 4 Vict. 2. 89. Provided as follows: (a.) Any such allowance shall be granted for a limited period not exceeding one year, and may be renewed for a further period, but shall not be continued after the police authority have received notice that the man has ceased to be employed on army service. (b.) The aggregate amount of the weekly allowance granted in respect of a married man, together with the weekly amount of any separation or other allowance required to be paid out of military funds in pursuance of any Royal Warrant, and the weekly amount of any compulsory deductions from the man's pay as a soldier, shall not exceed the total weekly amount which he was receiving from police funds when called out. (c.) The allowance granted in respect of an unmarried man shall not exceed in the aggregate eight shillings a week. (2.) If the man dies or is disabled whilst employed on army service, the police authority shall have the same powers with respect to the grant of gratuities as if he had been in the police force at the time of his death or disablement. (3.) If he returns to the police force he shall return to a rank not less than the rank which he held at the time when he was called out, and at a rate of pay not less than the rate which he received before that date. (4.) Any allowance or gratuity granted before the passing of this Act in respect of a constable called out on permanent service is hereby confirmed, and any such allowance may be continued until the expiration of two months from the passing of this Act, but not longer, unless it is in conformity with the requirements of this Act. (5.) Where a county is divided into districts for the purposes of the County Police Act, 1840, any allowances granted in accordance with this Act shall be deemed to be general expenditure within the meaning of that Act. and (6.) The expressions "police force" police authority 53 & 54 Vict. "police fund" have the same meanings in this Act as in the Police Act, 1890. e. 45. Application to 2. This Act shall apply to Scotland with the substitution of the Police (Scotland) Act, 1890, for the Police Act, 1890, and of the Police (Scotland) Act, 1857, for the County Police Act, 1840. 1900. Police Reservists (Allowances) Act, 1900. CH. 9, 10, 11. 3. This Act may be cited as the Police Reservists (Allowances) Short title. Act, 1900. www CHAPTER 10. An Act to remove doubts respecting the powers of the BE E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: area of 1.-(1.) The Local Government Board for Ireland may, with Power to the consent of the council of any rural district, alter any area of determine charge theretofore determined by Order of that Board as the area charge in on which there should be chargeable any special expenses leviable respect off a contributory place in that district, either under the Public certain special Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1896, or under any enactment expenses. directing expenses to be levied as expenses under those Acts. (2.) The said Board may, with such consent as aforesaid, determine that the whole rural district shall be the area on which any such expenses, whether incurred before or after the passing of this Act, shall be chargeable. 2. This Act may be cited as the Public Health (Ireland) Act, Short title. 1900, and may be cited with the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1896. CHAPTER 11. 23 An Act to provide further Money for the Uganda [25th June 1900.] BE 1. The Uganda Railway Act, 1896, shall have effect as if four Increase of million nine hundred and thirty thousand pounds were substituted authorised therein for three million pounds. 2. This Act may be cited as the Uganda Railway Act, 1900. issue under Constitution Act. Short title. Act to extend to the Queen's successors. Proclamation of Commonwealth. Commencement of Act. Operation of the constitution and laws. CHAPTER 12. An Act to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia. WHEREAS the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God, have agreed to unite in one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and under the Constitution hereby established : And whereas it is expedient to provide for the admission into the Commonwealth of other Australasian Colonies and possessions of the Queen: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act. 2. The provisions of this Act referring to the Queen shall extend to Her Majesty's heirs and successors in the sovereignty of the United Kingdom. 3. It shall be lawful for the Queen, with the advice of the Privy Council, to declare by proclamation that, on and after a day therein appointed, not being later than one year after the passing of this Act, the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, and also, if Her Majesty is satisfied that the people of Western Australia have agreed thereto, of Western Australia, shall be united in a Federal Commonwealth under the name of the Commonwealth of Australia. But the Queen may, at any time after the proclamation, appoint a Governor-General for the Commonwealth. 4. The Commonwealth shall be established, and the Constitution of the Commonwealth shall take effect, on and after the day so appointed. But the Parliaments of the several colonies may at any time after the passing of this Act make any such laws, to come into operation on the day so appointed, as they might have made if the Constitution had taken effect at the passing of this Act. 5. This Act, and all laws made by the Parliament of the Commonwealth under the Constitution, shall be binding on the courts, judges, and people of every State and of every part of the Commonwealth, notwithstanding anything in the laws of any State; and the laws of the Commonwealth shall be in force on all British ships, the Queen's ships of war excepted, whose first port of clearance and whose port of destination are in the Commonwealth. Constitution Act. 6. "The Commonwealth shall mean the Commonwealth of Definitious. Australia as established under this Act. "The States" shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the northern territory of South Australia, as for the time being are parts of the Commonwealth, and such colonies or territories as may be admitted into or established by the Commonwealth as States; and each of such parts of the Commonwealth shall be called " a State." Original States" shall mean such States as are parts of the Commonwealth at its establishment. 7. The Federal Council of Australasia Act, 1885, is hereby Repeal of repealed, but so as not to affect any laws passed by the Federal Federal Council of Australasia and in force at the establishment of the 48 & 49 Vict. Commonwealth. Any such law may be repealed as to any State by the Parliament of the Commonwealth, or as to any colony not being a State by the Parliament thereof. Council Act. c. 60. Boundaries 8. After the passing of this Act the Colonial Boundaries Act, Application of 1895, shall not apply to any colony which becomes a State of the Colonial Commonwealth; but the Commonwealth shall be taken to be a Act. self-governing colony for the purposes of that Act. 58 & 59 Vict. c. 34. 9. The Constitution of the Commonwealth shall be as follows:- Constitution. |