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COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 41 Powers, privileges and immunities of senator for Territory

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918 - SECT 41

Powers, privileges and immunities of senator for Territory

  (1)   A senator for a Territory has all the powers, privileges and immunities of a senator for a State and:

  (a)   shall be included in the whole number of the senators for the purpose of ascertaining the number of senators necessary to constitute a meeting of the Senate for the exercise of its powers and, if present, shall be counted for the purpose of determining whether the necessary number of senators are present; and

  (b)   has a vote on all questions arising in the Senate.

  (2)   The provisions contained in sections   16, 19 and 20 and sections   42 to 48 (inclusive) of the Constitution, to the extent (if any) to which they do not apply, by virtue of the Constitution, in relation to a senator for a Territory, apply, by force of this subsection, in relation to such a senator in the same way as they apply in relation to a senator for a State.

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