Electoral Validating Act 1906
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ELECTORAL VALIDATING.
No. 12 of 1906.
An Act to validate the Electoral Divisions of the State of New South Wales.
[Assented to 8th October, 1906.]
Preamble.
WHEREAS 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:
And whereas doubts have arisen as to the validity of the said proclamation and it is desirable to set such doubts at rest:
Be it therefore enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title.
- This Act may be cited as the Electoral Validating Act 1906.
Electoral Divisions of New South Wales.
- 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.