Guide 3 to NSW State Archives relating to Responsible Government - OCR - Flipbook - Page 230
A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Responsible Government
meetings of Cabinet concerning Legislative Council elections;
draft, proof and printed writs of election; lists of members showing
terms of service (lists dated 11 May 1954, 22 October 1959 and
14 October 1965); and, alphabetical lists of members, dated 22
October 1959 and 14 October 1965.
Earlier papers relating to Council elections, dating from 1933 to
1953, will be found in [9/4021].
File 63/1944 — Redistribution of electoral boundaries,
1957-69
This file comprises papers relating to the alteration of electorates
following re-distributions of boundaries and to the resultant
changes, if any, in the payment of electoral allowances to
Members of the Legislative Assembly.
CGS 12060,
File 63/1944
in [12/8652]
Section 28 of the Constitution Act, as amended, provided for the
payment of electoral allowances to Members of the Legislative
Assembly at various rates according to the remoteness of the
electorate from Sydney, and for this purpose electorates
throughout the State were divided into a number of groups in the
Fifth Schedule to the Act (four to six during the period covered by
this file). The grouping of electorates as contained in the Schedule
also formed the basis for the air travel entitlement of Ministers,
Members of both Houses of Parliament and, in certain cases, their
wives. Section 28A of the Act provided that the Governor might,
by proclamation, amend or vary this Schedule in such manner as
he deemed necessary to give effect to any distribution of
electorates carried out under the Parliamentary Electorates and
Elections Act.
Redistribution of electoral boundaries did not become fully
effective until the dissolution or expiration of the Parliament and it
was the practice for proclamations amending the Fifth Schedule to
be issued after the elections at which the re-distribution applied.
Includes
• printed particulars of distribution of State Electoral Districts by
Electoral Districts Commissioners, 1957, which gives a
breakdown of the 48 Sydney Area and 46 Country Area
Electoral Districts; the same for 1961
• Government Gazettes of 19 December 1957 and 11 August
1961 comprising Proclamations declaring the names and
boundaries of the 94 Electoral Districts determined by the
Electoral Districts Commissioners
• papers relating to electoral allowances payable to Members of
the Legislative Assembly following the redistribution in which
seats were abolished and new ones created
• papers relating to amendment of the Fifth Schedule of the
Constitution Act, 1902, to give effect to the alteration of
electorates following the re-distribution of electoral boundaries
• proof copy of the Parliamentary Allowances and Salaries
(Amendment) Bill, 1963
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