Constitution Alteration (Right to Stand for Parliament - Qualification of Members and Candidates) Bill 1998 [2004]
First Reading
Constitution Alteration (Right to Stand for Parliament - Qualification of Members and Candidates) Bill 1998 [2004]
First Reading
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The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Constitution Alteration (Right to Stand for Parliament--Qualification of Members and Candidates) Bill 1998
No. , 1998
(Senator Brown)
A Bill for an Act to alter the Constitution with respect to the qualification and disqualification of members of the Parliament and Parliamentary candidates
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A Bill for an Act to alter the Constitution with respect to the qualification and disqualification of members of the Parliament and Parliamentary candidates
The Parliament of Australia enacts, with the approval of the electors, as required by the Constitution:
This Act may be cited as the
Constitution Alteration (Right to Stand for Parliament--Qualification of Members and Candidates) 1998.
(1) The Constitution is altered by omitting paragraph (i) of section 44 and substituting the following paragraph:
(i) Is not an Australian citizen: or
(2) The Constitution is altered by omitting paragraph (iv) of section 44 and substituting the following paragraph:
(iv) Holds any judicial office or any other office that the Parliament from time to time declares to be an office for the purpose of this paragraph: or
(3) The Constitution is altered by omitting the following words from section 44:
, or of any of the Queen's Ministers for a State, or to the receipt of pay, half pay, or a pension, by any person as an officer or member of the Queen's navy or army,