§ MR. HOGANI beg to ask Mr. Attorney General whether a member of the Legislature of one of the constituent States will be legally entitled to occupy a seat in the Australian Commonwealth Parliament at the same time.
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir ROBERT FINLAY,) Inverness BurghsI am informed that the Legislature of South Australia has passed an Act providing that a member of either House of the South Australian Parliament shall, if elected a member of either House of the Commonwealth Parliament, vacate his seat in the South Australian Parliament on taking his seat in the Commonwealth Parliament, and that no member of the latter shall be qualified for nomination or election to either House of the Parliament of South Australia. None of the other colonies have, so far as I know, as yet adopted similar legislation, and therefore there is no impediment in the way of members of the Parliaments of these States becoming also members of the Federal Parliament, provided, of course, that they succeed in getting elected.