{"id":"C1903A00009","name":"Electoral Divisions Act 1903","slug":"electoral-divisions-act-1903","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"9 of 1903","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":12136,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1903A00009-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-31","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Electoral Divisions Act 1903","content":"ELECTORAL DIVISIONS.\n\nNo. 9 of 1903.\n\nAn Act relating to Elections.\n\n\\[Assented to 11th September, 1903.\\]\n\nBE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—\n\nShort title &c.\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the Electoral Divisions Act 1903, and shall be construed and read as one with the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902.\n\nDivisions under State law to be deemed Divisions under Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902.\n\n2. Where under a law of a State, made in pursuance of the Constitution, the State is at the commencement of this Act distributed into Electoral Divisions equal in number to the number of members of the House of Representatives to be chosen therein, those Electoral Divisions shall, until both Houses of the Parliament have passed a resolution approving of a proposed distribution of the State into Divisions, be taken to be Divisions within the meaning of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902.\n\nAmendment of Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902, sec. 19.\n\n3. Section nineteen of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902 is hereby amended, as from the commencement of that Act, by the omission of the words “names and.”","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":918},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is the original 1903 Act. It remains a narrow, transitional measure dealing solely with temporary electoral divisions and one minor textual amendment. The scope has not expanded beyond its original limited purpose of bridging the gap until permanent Commonwealth electoral distributions could be established."},"complexity_factors":["Only 3 sections total","No defined terms within the Act itself","Single conditional provision (section 2) with straightforward logic","Minimal cross-referencing (only to Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902)","No subsections, schedules, or nested provisions"],"plain_english_summary":"This 1903 law let the Commonwealth temporarily adopt any State’s existing electoral districts as federal divisions—but only where the State’s districts equalled its entitlement of House seats—so early federal elections could use familiar maps. The arrangement lasted until both Houses approved a formal seat distribution, and it makes a minor wording change to the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1902."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/electoral-divisions-act-1903","history":"/api/acts/electoral-divisions-act-1903/history","analysis":"/api/acts/electoral-divisions-act-1903/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/electoral-divisions-act-1903/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/electoral-divisions-act-1903/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/electoral-divisions-act-1903/documents"}}