THE QUALIFICATION OF ELECTORS ACT.

Kumara Times, Issue 953, 20 October 1879, Page 3

THE QUALIFICATION OF ELECTORS ACT.

•Tli'e Qualification of Electors Act is entitled an Act to define the' qualifications of electors of members of the House of Representatives, and contains five c'auses. By clause two every man aged twenty-one or upwards, having a freehold estiite in posession, situate tvifcbm the (Sectoral district for which tfsevo<eis to he given, of the value of i'2s, whether subject to encumbrances or not, and <»f or to which he has tieeu seized or entitled at law or equity for at least *ix calendar months next before registtation of his vote. fivery man who has resided cmS year in the eolony, aid in ihe electoral district for which he claims a vote dur'n> the six- months inum diately preceding tfre l'fe'giur.ratra i, and who is not registered in rosppct of a freehold qualifications under the Ac in lespect. of the same district. " Kegistratiou of vote" is to mean the day en which anv pels'™ lodges a claim" with the re^isf'raUui.

officer or the clay on which the registration officer places the names on the electoral rolls. Aboriginal Native inhabitants of New Zealand, including.half castes living as members of a Native tribe according to their customs and usages, and male decendants of such half castes by aboriginal Native woman, are not qualified to be registered as electors under thia Act, but may be registered as electors under the Act intended to be passed in this session of Parliament, conferring special representation on the Maori people. No alien nor person attained or convicted of any treason felony or infamous offence within any port of her Majesty's dominions, unless he has received a free pardon shall be entitled to be registered. Every man registered as an elector, but uo other person, is qualified to be elected a member for any electoral district within the colony. Any member of the House of Representatives ceasing to be registered as an elector shall not from that cause only be disqualified from continuing such member, notwithstanding anything in this Act contaied. Until the electoral rolls, to be framed under the an Act intended to be passed in present the session, shall come into force, all persons who may be qualified to Vote at any election as holding miners' shall continue to have, and may exercise as holders, such miner's right, the meaning hereof being that until the date hereinfore mentioned, none of the persons to whom this section refers shall be deprived of any privileges, which but for this Act they would have had or enjoyed.

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