THE REPRESENTATION ACT.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 340, 22 January 1861, Page 2

THE REPRESENTATION ACT.

An Act to make further provision for the representation of the people of New Zealand, in the General Assembly. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in the Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:— 1. The short title of this act shall.be "The Representation Act, 1860." 2. After the dissolution of the present Parliament the House of Representatives shall consist of fifty-three members. 3. For the purpose of the election of members of the said House, the Colony shall be divided into forty-three electoral districts, as the same are";respectively defined and set forth in the schedule to this Act. 4. The names of such electoral districts, and the number of members to be returned by each district respectively, shall be as follows :—

1. Mongonui ~. 1 member 2- Bay of 151and5............. I 3. Marsden 1 4. Northern Divi5i0n5.......... 2 5. City of Auckland, East.. „. 1 6. City of Auckland, West ~ 2 7. Pafnell . I 8. Newton^....,.: 1 . v . 9. Pension^ Settlements .... 1 10. Town of Oriehunga 1 11. Franklin 2 12. Eaglan... 1 13. Grey and Bell 1 14. Town of New Plymouth .. 1 15. Onuta .„ 1 16. Wanganui .............. 1 17. Rangitiki , 1 18. Porirua.. 1 19. City of Wellington 3 20. Hutt ; 2 . 21. Wairarapa 1 22. Napier 1 ; 2:?. Olive ;..... 1 24. Collingwood I 25. Motueka .. !t 1 26. City of Nelson 2 27. Suburbs of Nelson I 28. Waimea 1 29. Pieton 1 30. Wairau 1 31. Cheviot 1 32. Jiaiapoi 1 33. Avon 1 34. Heathcote > 1 35. Ellesmere 1 36. City of Christchurch 1 37. Town of Ly ttwlton 1 38. Akaroa 1 39. Timaru '~ 1 40. Hampden ~ 1 41. Bruce ~, 2 42. City of Dunedin.... 2 43. Wallace 2 5. The* Colonial Secretary shall cause properlyauthenticated maps of the said electoral district! to be deposited in the office of the clerk of the said House. 6. Immediately after the pttuing of this Act, officers to be appointed by the Governor for that purpose shall form new electoral rolls for the several electoral districts constituted by this Act. 7. For the purpose of forming such new electoral rolls, the name of every elector registered on the roll for the time being in force of any electoral district as constituted before the passing of this act, shall be placed on the new electoral roll of that one of the electoral districts constituted by this act, in which the tenements or hereditaments in respect whereof he is so registered are situate. 8. Upon such new electoral rolls being so formed by each officer appointed as aforesaid, the same ihall forthwith be transmitted by such officer to the Colonial Secretary, and shall be published iii such r o iv«nient manner as the Governor shall direct, and from the day of such publication the electoral roll so formed foreach district shall be the electoral roll to be used for such district for all purposes until a revised electoral roll for the same shall be in force under the provisions of the law for the time being for the registration of electors. 9. Writs shall be issued for the election of members of the House of Representatives in the ensuing Parliament so soon us the new electoral rolls shall have been formed as hereinbefore provided for the electoral districts constituted by this act. . 10. Provided always that notwithstanding anything in this act contained, if it shall appear tpjthe Governor to be necessary to summon a Parliament before new electoral rolls for all the electoral districts constituted by this act shall have been formed and published »9 hereinbefore provided, it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to issue writs for the election of members of the House of Representatives in like manner as if this act had not been passed; and in such case no election shall take place under this act (except su:h as shall take place under this present provision) until after the dissolution of the Parliament next succeeding this present Parliament. IL. The " Electoral Districts Act, 1858," is hereby repealed.