CONSTITUTION ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 1899 - SECT 21
CONSTITUTION ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 1899 - SECT 21
21 . Duration of Assembly
(1) Every Legislative
Assembly shall exist and continue for 4 years from the day of the first
meeting thereof and no longer; subject, nevertheless, to being sooner
prorogued or dissolved by the Governor.
Provided that, subject
as aforesaid —
(a)
whenever any Legislative Assembly would expire by the effluxion of time
between the last day of August of any year and the first day of February next
thereafter, such Legislative Assembly shall continue up to and including the
day next preceding such first day of February and no longer; and
(b)
whenever the Legislative Assembly would expire by effluxion of time between
the last day of January and the first day of September of any year, such
Legislative Assembly shall cease and determine on the last day of January of
that year.
(2) Notwithstanding
subsection (1) the Legislative Assembly in existence at the commencement of
the Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987 shall, subject to section 3 of
the Constitution Act 1889 , cease and determine on 31 January 1989.
[Section 21 amended: No. 48 of 1919 s. 2; No. 40
of 1987 s. 12.]