Queensland

ANNO DUODECIMO

GEORGII QUINTI REGIS.

No. [32]

A Bill to Amend the Constitution of Queensland by Abolishing the Legislative Council.

[Reserved:  His Majesty’s Assent Proclaimed 23rd March, 1922.]

Be it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

	1.	This Act may be cited as “The Constitution Act Amendment Act of 1921,” and shall be read and construed with and as an amendment of the “Constitution Act of 1867”

2.	(1)	The Legislative Council of Queensland is abolished.
		(2)	The office of member of the said Legislative Council is abolished.
		(3)	All offices constituted or created in or in connection with the said Legislative Council are abolished.
		(4)	The Parliament of Queensland (or as sometimes called the Legislature of Queensland) shall be constituted by His Majesty the King and the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled.	

Short title

Abolition of
Legislative
Council	

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Existing
privileges of
members of
the Council.

Repeal, &c.,
of certain
enactments,
Schedule			(5)	Any reference in any Act, rule, regulation, instrument, or writing whatsover to the Legislature, or to the Parliament, or to both Houses of Parliament, or other reference, which, if this act had not been passed, would be deemed to include a reference to the Legislative Council, shall be construed to refer only to His Majesty the King and the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, or only to the said Legislative Assembly, as the context may require.

	3.	The Governor in Council may by notification published in the Gazette declare that the existing members of the Legislative Council shall, during life or for such period of time as is fixed in such notification, retain and continue to be entitled to exercise the privilege of a free pass upon the Railways of the State and the use of the Parliamentary Library, and such other existing privileges of such members as may be mentioned in such notification.  Every such notification shall have the same effect as if it were enacted in this Act.

	4.	All enactment or provisions contained in any Act or Order in Council relating to the Constitution of Queensland which are inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of any such inconsistency, and for the purpose of giving due effect to this Act, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing provisions of this section, the enactments mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are amended to the extent therein indicated.	

SCHEDULE

Year and Number of Act	Title of Act	Extent of Amendment	
31 Vic. No. 21

31 Vic. No. 38	Legislative Assembly 
Act of 1867

Constitution Act of 1867	S. 	4 is repealed

S. 1, the words “Legislative Council and” are repealed.

S. 2, the words “Council and” are repealed.  The proviso is also repealed.

S. 3, the words “Council and” where they thrice occur are repealed

S. 4, the words “either of the Legislative Council or”; also the words “Council and” where they twice occur are repealed

S. 6, the words “summoned or”; also the words “Legislative Council or” where they twice occur; also the words “Council or” are repealed.	

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Year and Number of Act	Title of Act	Extent of Amendment	
31 Vic. No. 38	Constitution Act of 1867	S. 7, the words “Legislative Council or”; also the words “summoned to the said Council or”; also the words “summons or”;  also the words “Council and”; also the words “as the case may require”; also the words “Council or” are repealed.

S. 8, the words “Council and” wherever they occur; also the word “respectively” wherever it occurs; also the words “the Presisident or”; also the words “for the mode in which such Council and Assembly shall confer, correspond, and communicate with each other relative to votes or Bills passed by, or pending in, such Council and Assembly respectively and” are repealed.

S. 	9 is repealed.

S. 12, the words “Council and” where they twice occur are repealed.

S. 16, for the words “both Houses of the Legislature of this Colony” the words “the Legislative Assembly” are substituted.

The cross-heading before s. 20 and ss. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26 are repealed.

In the cross-heading before s. 41 the words “Houses of” are repealed.

S. 41, for the words “Each House of the Parliament” the words “The Legislative Assembly” are substituted; for the word “either” the word “such” is substituted.

S. 42, for the words “either House” the words “the Legislative Assembly” are substituted; and the words “President or” and also the words “as the case may be” are repealed.	

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Year and Number of Act	Title of Act	Extent of Amendment	
31 Vic. No. 38

60 Vic. No. 5	Constitution Act of 1867

The Constitution Act Amendment Act of 1896	S. 43. For the words “either House” where those words thrice occur the words “the Assembly” are substituted; also for the words “the House of which he is a member” the words “the Assembly” are substituted.

S. 44, for the words “either House” where they twice occur the words “the Assembly” are substituted, and the words “President or” are repealed.

S. 45, for the words “Each House of the said Parliament” the words “The Legislative Assembly” are substituted; also for the words “either House” where they thrice occur the words “the House” are substituted; and for the words “such House” the words “the House” are substituted.

SS. 46 and 47, the words “President or” and the words “as the case may be” are repealed.

S. 48, the words “President or” are repealed.

S. 49, the words “President or” and the words “as the case may be” are repealed.

S. 50, the words “President or” are repealed.

S. 52, for the words “either House” the words “the Legislative Assembly” are substituted.

Schedule I., the provisions “President of the Legislative Council 1,000 and Chairman of Committees of the Legislative Council 700” are repealed.	

I hereby certify that this PUBLIC BILL has finally passed the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Queensland
[Carlton R Gregory]
Clerk of the Parliaments
Legislative Council Chamber,
		Brisbane, [4 November 1921]

I reserve this Bill for the signification of His Majesty’s pleasure thereon

[Matthew Nathan]
Government House,
	Brisbane,           [November 5th 1921]

[Transmitted from the Legislative Council for Enrolment according to Law]

										[Carlton R Gregory]
										[Clerk of the Parliament]

[Legislative Council Offices]
[Brisbane 24th March 1922]

[Recorded and enrolled in the office of the Registrar of Titles of Queensland at Brisbane this twenty fifth day of March One thousand nine hundred and twenty two.]

										[L Bradfield]
										[Registrar of Titles]