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<act title="Australian Constitutions Act 1844" year.assent="1844" no="acai" publication.date="1907-08-02" type="act" amending="none" print.type="act.reprint" first.valid.date="1907-08-02T00:00:00+10:00" in.force="allinforce" assent.date="1844-08-06T00:00:00+10:00" id="act-1844-acai" version.desc.id="214d4ec0-7934-4430-baae-98751b06368a" version.series.id="e1e004aa-e401-412f-9b6e-0aef70948fed"><coverdata id="cd" guid="_9f4d1d41-9974-4d8e-b801-d15c91776191"/><wrapper><front id="frnt" guid="_ab6f7b8b-7a34-47c4-9c7c-27505c6784ee"><shorttitle id="frnt-st" guid="_48009fdb-f751-42bb-a7d8-68f1eadb2494">Australian Constitutions Act 1844</shorttitle><reprintdescription><block><historynote><txt break.before="1">Note—The short title was given to this Act by the Short Titles Act 1896 59 &#38; 60 Vic c 14 (Imp) s&#160;1sch&#160;1.</txt></historynote></block></reprintdescription><longtitle id="frnt-lt" guid="_9bcc260a-2910-4401-8950-d69fea292787"><block><txt break.before="1">An Act to explain and amend the <legref jurisd="QLD" type="act" check="invalid">Act</legref> for the government of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land</txt></block><historynote><txt break.before="1"><b>Preamble</b> om 1855 18 &#38; 19 Vic c 54 s&#160;2 sch&#160;2</txt></historynote></longtitle></front><body numbering.style="manual"><clause id="sec.1" guid="_4df4debf-50e4-45f4-a8c7-4c5f56db3d12" status="repealed" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0" provision.type="other" toc="no"><no>1</no><heading id="sec.1-he" guid="_23704935-9e4c-4bf7-bc33-32062085c82e">Defining extent of convict establishment</heading><repealed><repealedtxt/></repealed><historynote><txt break.before="1"><b>s&#160;1</b> om 1855 18 &#38; 19 Vic c 54 s&#160;2 sch&#160;2</txt></historynote></clause><clause id="sec.2" guid="_bf10b0c7-1ba8-4e95-b983-906ea86a5e82" status="repealed" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0" provision.type="other" toc="no"><no>2</no><heading id="sec.2-he" guid="_2793c7b2-7343-4a66-ac18-f3e7ecf70fd0">Repeal of part of 5 and 6 Vic. c. 76 s. 9</heading><repealed><repealedtxt/></repealed><historynote><txt break.before="1"><b>s&#160;2</b> om 1875 38 &#38; 39 Vic c 66 s&#160;1 sch</txt></historynote></clause><clause id="sec.3" guid="_cb0ea553-a5b1-4bcc-bb85-5c2e9c6a7bf0" status="repealed" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0" provision.type="other" toc="no"><no>3</no><heading id="sec.3-he" guid="_65795445-a66f-4c6e-9736-74671036bb60">Declaration of qualification to be made in the council</heading><repealed><repealedtxt/></repealed><historynote><txt break.before="1"><b>s&#160;3</b> om 1855 18 &#38; 19 Vic c 54 s&#160;2 sch&#160;2</txt></historynote></clause><clause id="sec.4" guid="_e7371258-bd2c-41cd-ad03-541c2db9c2ce" status="repealed" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0" provision.type="other" toc="no"><no>4</no><heading id="sec.4-he" guid="_de24c8f7-06e5-45b3-859e-6af0e0c7b39c">Repealing provision in recited Act as to payment of sums to be levied</heading><repealed><repealedtxt/></repealed><historynote><txt break.before="1"><b>s&#160;4</b> om 1875 38 &#38; 39 Vic c 66 s&#160;1 sch</txt></historynote></clause><clause id="sec.5" guid="_e3af8786-b5e8-42be-ae35-903f0eb256ac" status="repealed" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0" provision.type="other" toc="no"><no>5</no><heading id="sec.5-he" guid="_75230bc6-dd2f-4a34-a4a4-43ab7c2a35a6">Enabling treasurer to pay amount named in the warrant</heading><repealed><repealedtxt/></repealed><historynote><txt break.before="1"><b>s&#160;5</b> om 1855 18 &#38; 19 Vic c 54 s&#160;2 sch&#160;2</txt></historynote></clause><clause id="sec.6" guid="_a8ba5573-e23d-491c-84e9-a25702d0fc9a" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0" provision.type="other"><no>6</no><heading id="sec.6-he" guid="_62cd76ba-392f-4bd1-8a34-634554670070">Defining Colony</heading><block><txt break.before="1">And whereas it is by the said Act amongst other things provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor and Legislative Council of the said Colony, in exercise of the powers to them respectively granted by the said Act, and in the manner and subject to the rules thereinbefore prescribed, to repeal, vary, or alter all or any part of the <legref jurisd="QLD" type="act" check="invalid">Act</legref>s therein recited, or any of them, or any law or ordinance made in pursuance thereof:</txt><note id="sec.6-note" guid="_13089690-1449-4e32-9178-89c85ec4f6f0" type="editorial"><heading id="sec.6-note-he" guid="_ebc577b2-695e-4664-af45-b36221c7938e">Editor’s note—</heading><block><txt break.before="1">The <legref jurisd="QLD" type="act" check="invalid">Act</legref> passed in the sixth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria intituled ‘An Act for the government of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land’.</txt></block></note></block><block><txt break.before="1">And whereas doubts may arise whether the colony mentioned in the last-recited enactment is the Colony of New South Wales or the Colony of Van Diemen’s Land;</txt></block><block><txt break.before="1">Be it declared and enacted that by the colony in the said last-recited enactment mentioned is and shall be understood the Colony of New South Wales and not the Colony of Van Diemen’s Land.</txt></block></clause><clause id="sec.7" guid="_f23cd57a-9de0-4a19-bd3e-ba01d4826151" status="repealed" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0" provision.type="other" toc="no"><no>7</no><heading id="sec.7-he" guid="_3f280373-772c-4b23-a2c4-dd9bef04a39a">Extending the Governor’s powers as to giving or withholding the royal assent</heading><repealed><repealedtxt/></repealed><historynote><txt break.before="1"><b>s&#160;7</b> om 1907 7 Edw 7 c 7 s&#160;1(4) sch</txt></historynote></clause><clause id="sec.8" guid="_6d3dc9a6-5750-45b5-8ca1-dbfaab23ec20" status="repealed" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0" provision.type="other" toc="no"><no>8</no><heading id="sec.8-he" guid="_db491f1c-e4d9-44a4-a8c4-3c990a540ec6">Defining “Governor”</heading><repealed><repealedtxt/></repealed><historynote><txt break.before="1"><b>s&#160;8</b> om 1907 7 Edw 7 c 7 s&#160;1(4) sch</txt></historynote></clause><clause id="sec.9" guid="_04011bd8-16e1-4065-b862-9ebdf8041323" status="repealed" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0" provision.type="other" toc="no"><no>9</no><heading id="sec.9-he" guid="_66bba77a-7688-4fa8-9bcb-7971b1e7023b">Commencement of Act</heading><repealed><repealedtxt/></repealed><historynote><txt break.before="1"><b>s&#160;9</b> om 1875 38 &#38; 39 Vic c 66 s&#160;1 sch</txt></historynote></clause><clause id="sec.10" guid="_d20ce83f-f8d4-4e6b-a3fe-7fb60bbdf94a" status="repealed" affected.by.uncommenced="0" spent.amends="0" provision.type="other" toc="no"><no>10</no><heading id="sec.10-he" guid="_53ca9886-4967-4a24-a48f-3bf2184cfc28">Act may be amended this session</heading><repealed><repealedtxt/></repealed><historynote><txt break.before="1"><b>s&#160;10</b> om 1875 38 &#38; 39 Vic c 66 s&#160;1 sch</txt></historynote></clause></body></wrapper></act>