New Zealand. 1893, No. 18.
An Act to amend and consolidate the Law relating to the Qualification and Registration of Electors, and the Conduct of Elections of Members of the House of Representatives.
Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1. | The Short Title of this Act is "The Electoral Act, 1893." |
2. | This Act shall come into force on the day the Governor assents to the same, which is herein referred to as the commencement of this Act. |
3. | Words and expressions in this Act importing the masculine gender include women, except where otherwise expressly stated. |
Part I.
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7. | Maoris as defined in Part V. of this Act shall not be qualified to be registered as electors under Part II. of this Act, but shall be qualified to vote at elections of Maori members, as hereinafter provided in Part V. of this Act. |
But it shall be competent for any Maori who is seised in severalty of a freehold estate of the value of twenty-five pounds, whether subject to encumbrances or not, and for any male or female half-caste who is possessed of a qualification under section six of this Act, to apply to be registered under Part II. of this Act, and he may be so registered; but, in such case, he shall not be qualified to vote at any election held under Part V. of this Act.
page 2Every claim and declaration to be made by a Maori, or a male or female half-caste, to be registered under Part II. of this Act shall be made in manner specified in section nineteen of this Act.
Part V.
Maori Representation.
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In this Part of this Act— "Maori" means an aboriginal inhabitant of New Zealand, and includes half-castes and their descendants by Natives. |
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149. | In addition to the number of members of which by any law for the time being in force it may be provided that the House of Representatives shall consist, there shall be four members of the said House who shall be elected under the provisions of this Part of this Act to represent therein the inhabitants of the colony of the Maori race. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
150. | Such members shall be chosen respectively from amongst and by the votes of the Maoris inhabiting each of the several Maori electoral districts hereinafter mentioned, who shall not at any time theretofore have been attainted or convicted of any treason, felony, or any offence punishable by penal servitude or imprisonment with hard labour for three years or upwards, and shall be otherwise qualified as hereinafter provided. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
151. |
Every Maori, as defined in section one hundred and forty-eight of this Act (not being registered under Part II. of this Act), who is twenty-one years of age and upwards, and who is not disqualified under some provisions of this Act or any other Act, is entitled, subject to the provisions of this Act, to vote as an elector at any election of a member of the House of Representatives for the Maori electoral district which he inhabits; and Every male elector under this Part of this Act is qualified to be a member of the House of Representatives for any Maori electoral district of the colony. |
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152. |
No member elected under the provisions of this Part of this Act to serve in the House of Representatives, and no Maori member who shall be summoned to the Legislative Council, shall be capable of being appointed to any office of emolument under the General Government of the colony so long as he may be a member of the General Assembly. If any such member of either branch of the Legislature shall at the time of his being summoned or elected hold any such office of emolument as aforesaid, the salary or emolument of such office shall neither be increased nor diminished during such time as he may be a member of the General Assembly. The provisions of this section shall not, however, apply to the holding a seat in the Executive Council, or holding an appointment as adviser or assessor of or in connection with the Executive Council, and receiving salary only in respect of such seat or such appointment, such seat or appointment being held on the ordinary tenure of responsible government. |
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153. |
For the purpose of the election of the aforesaid Maori members of the said House, the colony shaft be divided into four Maori electoral districts. page 3The names of such electoral districts and the numbers of the members to be returned by each such district respectively shall be as follow:— The Northern Maori Electoral District—One member. The Eastern Maori Electoral District—One member. The Western Maori Electoral District—One member. The Southern Maori Electoral District—One member. |
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154. | The several Maori electoral districts constituted under "The Maori Representation Act, 1867," as the same existed at the time of the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to be constituted and shall be the Maori electoral districts under this Act; but the Governor, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, may at any time as occasion may require redefine and declare, and from time to time alter and vary, the boundaries of the said several Maori electoral districts; and such boundaries so from time to time redefined and declared shall be taken and deemed to be the boundaries of the said Maori electoral districts as fully as if the same had been set forth in this Part of this Act. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
155. | The person who at the time of the making and publication of any Proclamation altering the boundaries of any Maori electoral district is the member of the House of Representatives for such district, shall (if in all other respects duly qualified) be and be deemed to be the member for such one of the Maori electoral districts affected by such alteration as the Governor shall in and by any such Proclamation appoint, as if such member had been originally elected for such electoral district so altered as aforesaid. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
156. | The elections, whether general or particular, of all Maori members shall be conducted according to the following regulations:—
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Nineteenth Schedule.
Form C.
Pukapuka Pooti.
Ko te tangata Maori kei raro nei tona ingoa e marama ana ia kia pooti a te whakatunga o te tangata mo te Takiwa Pooti Maori Whaka-te hei reo mo ratou Whaka-Maori ki roto ki te Runanga Nui o Niu Tireni:—
Voting-paper.
Ko to Ingoa Iriiri, Maori hold, o te Tangata Pooti. Christian Name and Surname of Elector. | Iwi. Tribe. | Hapu. Hapu. | Kainga. Abode. |
Tangata e pootitia ana:
Kai-titiro:
Candidate voted for:
Witness:
* "The Electoral Law Amendment Act, 1893," inserts the word "Maori or" before "half-caste."