No. 106.

at the mouth of the River Moyne:" And whereas by clause No. 39 24 VICTORIA, of the Schedule annexed to the 22 Victoria No. 64 intituled "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of the Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" the boundaries of the electoral district of Belfast were declared and defined as follows (that is to say)-" Commencing at a point on the sea coast bearing south seven degrees thirty minutes west sixteen chains twenty-five links from the south-west angle of section fifteen township of Belfast and bounded on the west by a line bearing north sixty-two chains on the north by a line bearing east forty-five chains twenty-five links again on the west by a line bearing north three chains seventy-five links to the river Moyne by that river to its mouth and by the sea coast to the point of commencement also that portion commencing at the south-west angle of section A parish of Belfast and bounded on the north-east by a line bearing north-west fifteen chains to the Moyne saltwater lagoon by that lagoon and the River Moyne to its mouth and by the sea coast northerly to the lastmentioned point of commencement:" And whereas it is expedient. that the boundaries of the said municipal district and of the said electoral district should be the same: Be it therefore declared and enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly and by the authority of the same as follows (that is to say):

1. The said recited clause No. 39 of the said Schedule annexed Repeal of No. 39 to the said Act is hereby repealed.

Schedule 22 Vict.
No. 64.

Belfast.

2. From and after the date of this Act coming into operation Boundaries of the boundaries of the electoral district of Belfast shall be the same as those of the municipal district of Belfast as in the said recited proclamation set forth and defined.

No. 64.

3. This Act shall be read and construed as if it formed portion This Act to form of the said recited Act. And the Schedule hereunto annexed shall portion of 22 Vict. be substituted instead of the clause No. 39 of the Schedule to the schedule. said recited Act.

of Act.

4. This Act shall commence and take effect from and after the Commencement expiration or dissolution of the present Parliament; and immediately upon such expiration or dissolution the registrar of the electoral district of Villiers and Heytesbury shall make out from the general and special electoral rolls for the said district a list of all persons whose qualifications are set forth in the said rolls as being within the "area" comprised within the electoral district of Belfast as set forth in the Schedule to this Act annexed; and shall submit said schedule. list and rolls to the justices in petty sessions in the said last-mentioned district, who shall compare the said list and rolls and certify the said list; and the said registrar shall then strike the names on the said certified list out of the roll for the electoral district of Villiers and Heytesbury, and shall forward the said certified lists to the registrar of the electoral district of Belfast, who is hereby authorised and directed to add the names on the said certified list to the roll for the said last-mentioned district; and such rolls so amended shall be the rolls for the district to which they respectively relate or belong until they are further amended according to law.

24 VICTORIA, No. 106.

SCHEDULE.

THE ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF BELFAST.

[The boundaries and the number of members for this district are set forth in the Second Schedule to 29 Vict. No. 279, "Parliament (Electoral)," post.]

Preamble.

23 Vict. No. 91.

Uncertificated bankrupt or insolvent inca

An Act to amend the Act intituled "An Act to limit
the number of persons holding offices under the
Crown who may sit and vote in the Legislative
Council and Legislative Assembly of Victoria."
[3rd July 1861.]

WH

HEREAS it is expedient to amend the Act passed in the twenty-third year of the reign of Her Majesty intituled "An Act to limit the number of persons holding offices under the Crown who may sit and vote in the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Victoria:" Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows (that is to say):

1. No person being an uncertificated bankrupt or insolvent shall be capable of being elected a member of the Legislative pable of election. Assembly: and if any such person shall be elected and returned as a member of the Assembly such election and return shall be void: and if any person so elected shall sit or vote as a member of the said Assembly, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of two hundred pounds for every day on which he shall so sit or vote, to be recovered with full costs of suit by any person who shall sue for the same in any court of the said colony having competent jurisdiction.(a)

Effect of incapacity.

52 Geo. III. c. 144 s. 1.

(a) This Act is an Act altering the qualification of members of the Legislative Assembly within the meaning of the 61st section of "The Constitution Act," and therefore did not require either the concurrence of an absolute majority

of the Council and the Assembly on its second and third readings, or to be reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon. -Kenny v. Chapman, 1 W. & W. (L.), 93.