Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REPRESENTATION AMENDMENT ACT 1977 No. 16, 1977 - SECT 7

7. Schedule B to the Principal Act is repealed and the following Schedule
substituted:-

SCHEDULE
Section 5

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Representation Act 1905 CERTIFICATE OF THE CHIEF AUSTRALIAN ELECTORAL OFFICER
AS TO THE NUMBERS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND OF THE SEVERAL STATES.
I,                , the Chief Australian Electoral Officer, hereby certify
that I have this day, in accordance with the Represenation Act 1905,
ascertained the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth and of the several
States in accordance with the latest statistics of the Commonwealth, and that
those numbers are as follows:-
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Numbers
of States                                                               the
People
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New South Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victoria .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Queensland . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . South Australia . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . The Commonwealth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . .
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Dated the         day of         19 .


Chief Australian Electoral Officer. Minor and consequential amendments.
8. The Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule. Transitional.
9. (1) The Chief Australian Electoral Officer shall, within 30 days after the
commencement of this section, ascertain the numbers of the people of the
Commonwealth and of the several States in accordance with the latest
statistics of the Commonwealth, and, notwithstanding sub-section 12 (2) of the
Principal Act as amended by this Act, at the first general election of Members
of the House of Representatives held after the commencement of this section,
the number of Members to be chosen in each State shall be in accordance with
the determination made in relation to that ascertainment of the numbers of the
people.

(2) The ascertainment of the numbers of the people in pursuance of sub-section
(1) shall, for the purposes of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, be
deemed to have been made under and in accordance with section 3 of that Act as
so amended.

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