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PART II

Property qualification.

s.1.(2)(b)

First Schedule.

Se.13121 * ACT.

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Personal qualification.

6.

(1) A person, in order to have the requisite

property qualification for a constituency, must during the

whole of the period of twelve months immediately preceding the

application for registration ·

(a) have owned a tenement within the constituency

assessed for rates to an amount of not less than

two hundred dollars per annum; or

(b) have occupied as tenant the whole of a tenement

within the constituency in respect whereof rates

assessed to an amount of not less than two hundred

dollars per annum have been paid, or have occupied

as tenant for the purposes of his business, profession

or trade the ground floor of such a tenement as

aforesaid; or

(c) in respect of tenements within the villages, or areas

specified in the First Schedule to this Ordinance,

(1) have owned such a tenement assessed for rates

at not less than twenty dollars per annum, or

(ii) have occupied as tenant the whole of such a

tenement in respect whereof rates assessed at

not less than twenty dollars have been paid.

(2) For the purposes of this section the rates in respect

of any tenement shall be deemed to have been paid during the

whole of the period of twelve months preceding the application

for registration if no default has been made in the payment of

the rates in respect of such tenement as and when the same

became due.

(3) The Governor in Council may from time to time amend

Λ the said First Schedule in such manner as he may think fit.

7.- (1) A person, in order to have the requisite personal

qualification for a constituency, must at the time of application

for registration be -

(a) a person whose name is included in the Jury Lists

then ourrent or whose name was previously included

in the Jury Lists but has been omitted or removed

therefrom; or

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