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Be  it  therefore  enacted  by  the  Queen’s  Most  Excellent  Majesty,  by  and  with
the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Lords  Spiritual  and  Temporal,  and  Commons,  in  this
present  Parliament  assembled,  and  by  the  authority  of  the  same,  as  follows:

1.  This  act  may  be  cited  as  the  Commonwealth  of  Australia  Constitution  Act.

2.  The  provisions  of  this  act  referring  to  the  Queen  shall  extend  to  Her  Majesty’s
Heirs  and  Successors  in  the  Sovereignty  of  the  United  Kingdom.

3.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  the  Queen,  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Privy
Council,  to  declare  by  Proclamation  that,  on  and  after  a  day  therein  appointed,  not
being  later  than  one  year  after  the  passing  of  this  Act,  the  people  of  New  South  Wales,
Victoris,  South  Australis,  Queensland,  and  Tasmania,  and  also,  if  Her  Majesty  is
satified  that  the  people  of  Western  Australia  have  agreed  thereto,  of  Western
Australia,  shall  be  united  in  a  Federal  Commonwealth  under  the  name  of  the  Commonwealth
  of  Australia.  But  the  Queen  may,  at  any  time  after  the  Proclamation,
appoint  a  Governor-General  for  the  Commonwealth.

4.  The  Commonwealth  shall  be  established,  and  the  Constitution  of  the  Commonwealth
  shall  take  effect,  on  and  after  the  day  so  appointed.  But  the  Parliaments
of  the  several  Colonies  may  at  any  time  after  the  passing  of  this  Act  make  any  such
laws,  to  come  into  operation  on  the  day  so  appointed,  as  they  might  have  made  if
the  Constitution  had  taken  effect  at  the  passing  of  this  act.

5.  This  act  and  all  laws  made  by  the  Parliament  of  the  Commonwealth  under
the  Constitution,  shall  be  binding  on  the  Courts,  Judges,  and  people  of  every  State,
and  of  every  part  of  the  Commonwealth,  notwithstanding  anything  in  the  laws  of
any  State;  and  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  shall  be  in  force  on  all  British  ships,
the  Queen’s  ship  of  war  excepted,  whose  first  port  of  clearance  and  whose  port  of
destination  are  in  the  Commonwealth.

6.  “The  Commonwealth”  shall  mean  the  Commonwealth  of  Australia  as  established
  under  this  act.

“The  States”  shall  mean  such  of  the  Colonies  of  New  South  Wales,  New  7esland,
  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  Territoriee  as  may  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  Act,  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.

9.  The  Constitution  of  the  Commonwealth  shall  be  as  follows: