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 622 ADELAIDE AND VICINITY Appendix E Repeal of Fetleral Council Act. 48 Jl 49 VicU, c. eu. Application of Colonial Boundaries Act. 58 « 59 Vict., c. 34. CongUtution. "The States" shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the Northern Territory of South Australia, as for the time being are parts of the Commonwealth, and such colonies or territories as mav be admitted into or established by the Commonwealth as States ; and each of such parts of the Commonwealth shall be called " a State.'' "Original States" shall mean such States as are parts of the Commonwealth at its establishment. 7. The Federal Council of Australasia Act, 1885, is hereby repealed, but so as not to affect any laws passed by the Federal Council of Australasia and in force at the establishment of the Commonwealth. Any such law may be repealed as to any State by the Parliament of the Commonwealth, or as to any colony not being a State by the Parliament thereof. 8. After the passing of this Act the Colonial Boundaries .ct, 1895, shall not apply to any colony which becomes a State of the Commonwealth ; but the Commonwealth shall be taken to be a self-governing colony for the purposes of that Act. q. The Constitution of the Commonwealth shall be as follows : — THE CONSTITUTION. This Constitution is divided as follows :- Chapter I.- Part I.- Part II.- Part III.- Part IV.- Part V.- Chapter 11.-^ Chapter III.- Chapter IV.- Chapter V.- Chapter VI.- Chapter VII.- Chapter VIII.- The Schedule. -The Parliament : -General : -The Senate : -The House of Representatives : -Both Houses of the Parliament -Powers of the Parliament : -The Executive Government : -The Judicature : -Finance and Trade : -The States : -New States : -Miscellaneous : -Alteration of the Constitution. ClIAl'. I. TiiK Parliament. I' ART I. (Ieneral. Leyulatire power. Govenior-General. tialar}' of Governor -Oener&I chaptf:r I. THE PARLIAMENT. Part I. — General. 1. The legislative power of the Commonwealth shall be vested in a Federal Parliament, which shall consist of the Queen, a Senate, and a House of Representatives, and which is hereinafter called " The Parliament," or " The Parliament of the Commonwealth." 2. A Governor-General, appointed by the Queen, shall be Her Majesty's representative in the Commonwealth, and shall have and may exercise in the Commonwealth during the Queen's pleasure, but subject to this Constitution, such powers and functions of the Queen as Her Majesty may be pleased to assign to him. 3. There shall be payable to the Queen out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Commonwealth, for the salary of the Governor-General, an annual sum, which, until the Parliament Otherwise provides, shall be Ten Thousand Pounds. The salary of a Governor-General shall not be altered during his continuance in office.