{"id":"C1906A00012","name":"Electoral Validating Act 1906","slug":"electoral-validating-act-1906","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"12 of 1906","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":18463,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1906A00012-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Electoral Validating Act 1906","content":"ELECTORAL VALIDATING.\n\nNo. 12 of 1906.\n\nAn Act to validate the Electoral Divisions of the State of New South Wales.\n\n\\[Assented to 8th October, 1906.\\]\n\nPreamble.\n\nWHEREAS by a proclamation, made in pursuance of the Commonwealth Electoral Acts 1902-1905 and published in the Gazette on the seventeenth day of July One thousand nine hundred and six, the Governor-General declared the names and boundaries of the Electoral Divisions for the State of New South Wales:\n\nAnd whereas doubts have arisen as to the validity of the said proclamation and it is desirable to set such doubts at rest:\n\nBe it therefore 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.\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the Electoral Validating Act 1906.\n\nElectoral Divisions of New South Wales.\n\n2. The proclamation published in the Gazette on the seventeenth day of July One thousand nine hundred and six declaring the names and boundaries of the Electoral Divisions for the State of New South Wales shall be deemed to have been lawfully made, and the Electoral Divisions as therein set out shall, from the date of the publication of the said proclamation and until altered, he the Electoral Divisions for the State of New South Wales.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1172},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains tightly scoped to its original purpose of validating a single specific proclamation from July 1906 regarding NSW electoral divisions. It has not expanded beyond this narrow validating function."},"complexity_factors":["Only 2 operative sections (short title and validation provision)","No defined terms or interpretation section","No conditional logic, exceptions, or nested provisions","Single declaratory purpose with no cross-references requiring navigation"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a short \"fix-it\" law from 1906.\n\n**What it does:**\nIn July 1906, the Governor-General announced the boundaries for New South Wales federal electorates (the geographic areas that elect Members of Parliament). Afterwards, doubts emerged about whether that announcement was legally valid. This law settles those doubts by declaring that the July 1906 announcement is legally sound, and the electoral boundaries it described are officially valid.\n\n**Who it affects:**\nVoters and candidates in New South Wales federal elections from 1906 onwards (until the boundaries were later changed).\n\n**Why it matters:**\nIt prevented electoral chaos. Without this law, elections held under the disputed boundaries might have been challenged in court, potentially invalidating results or requiring fresh elections."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/electoral-validating-act-1906","history":"/api/acts/electoral-validating-act-1906/history","analysis":"/api/acts/electoral-validating-act-1906/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/electoral-validating-act-1906/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/electoral-validating-act-1906/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/electoral-validating-act-1906/documents"}}