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 App«"di^E ADELAIDE AND VICINITY 623 4. The provisions of this Constitution relating to the Governor-General extend and apply to the frovisioTis relating to Governor-General for the time being, or such person as the Queen may appoint to administer the Government of the Commonwealth ; but no such person shall be entitled to receive any salary from the Commonwealth in respect of any other ofTice during his administration of the Government of the Commonwealth. 5. The Governor-General may appoint such times for holding the sessions of the Parliament as sessions of Parliament, he thinks fit, and may also from lime to lime, by Proclamaiion or otherwise, prorogue the Parliament, dissolution. and may in like manner dissolve the House of Representatives. After any general election the Parliament shall be summoned to meet not later than thirty days .summoning Parliament. after the day appointed for the return of the writs. The Parliament shall be summoned to meet not later than six months after the establishment of First session, the Commonwealth. 6. There shall be a session of the Parliament once at least in every year, so that twelve months ve,iri,v session ot shall not intervene between the last sitting of the Parliament in one session and iis first sitting in the next session. Part II. — The Senate. Part ii. The Se.nate. 7. The Senate shall be composed of senators for each State, directly chosen by the people of the j.[,g senrn State, voting, until the Parliament otherwise provides, as one electorate. But until the Parliament of the Commonwealth otherwise provides, the Parliament of the Slate of Queensland, if that State be an Original Slate, may make laws dividing the State into divisions, and determining the number of senators to be chosen for each division, and in the absence of such provision the State shall be one electorate. Until the Parliament otherwise provides there shall be six senators for each Original State. The Parliament may make laws increasing or diminishing the number of senators for each State, but so that equal representation of the several Original States shall be maintained, and that no Original State shall have less than six senators. The senators shall be chosen for a term of six years, and the names of the senators chosen for each State shall be certified by the Governor to the Governor-General. 8. The qualification of electors of senators shall be in each State that winch is prescribed by this Quaiiflcation of electors. Constitution, or by the Parliament, as the qualification for electors of members of the House of Representatives ; but in the choosing of senators each elector shall vote only once. 9. The Parliament of the Commonwealth may make laws prescribing the method of choosing Method of eieetion of senators, but so that the method shall be uniform for all the States. Subject to any such law, the Parliament of each State may make laws prescribing the method of choosing the senators for that State. The Parliament of a State may make laws for determining the times and places of elections Times and places. of senators for the State. 10. Until the Parliament otherwise provides, but subject to this Constitution, the laws in force in Appiiration of state each State, for the time being, relating to elections for the more numerous House of the Parliament ^""^ of the State shall, as nearly as practicable, apply to elections of senators for the Slate. 11. The Senate may proceed to the dispatch of business, notwithstanding the failure of any State Failure to choose ^ * _ "^ senators. to provide for its representation in the Senate. 12. The Governor of any State may cause writs to be issued for elections of senators for the issue of writs. State. In case of the dissolution of the Senate ihe writs shall be issued within ten days from the proclamation of such dissolution. 13. .s soon as may be after the Senate first meets, and after each first meeting of the Senate Rotation of senators.