Constitution Act 1934

Whenever—

any Bill has been passed by the House of Assembly during any session of Parliament; and

the same Bill or a similar Bill with substantially the same objects and having the same title has been passed by the House of Assembly during the next ensuing Parliament; and

a general election of the House of Assembly has taken place between the two Parliaments; and

the second and third readings of the Bill were passed in the second instance by an absolute majority of the whole number of members of the House of

both such Bills have been rejected by the Legislative Council or failed to become law in consequence of any amendments made therein by the

to dissolve the Legislative Council and House of Assembly by proclamation to be published in the Gazette; or

to issue writs for the election of two additional members for each

If the Legislative Council and House of Assembly are so dissolved—

all the members of both Houses of Parliament shall thereupon vacate their seats and members shall be elected to supply the vacancies so created;

the order of retirement as between members of the Legislative

If writs for the election of additional members of the Council are issued, after the issue of such writs no vacancy whether arising before or after the issue thereof shall be filled except as may be necessary to bring the representation of the district in which the vacancy occurs to its proper number as set forth in Schedule 2 of this Act. Whenever there are more seats vacated by members returned for the same district than there are seats to be filled and such members' seats were of unequal tenure the seats of those members the unexpired portions of whose terms are the shorter shall be first filled.