V.  Australien.  1398  951.  Australia.

20.  The  place  of  a  senator  shall  become  vacant  if  for  two  consecutive  months
of  any  session  of  the  Parliament  he,  whithout  the  permission  of  the  Senate,  fails  to
attend  the  Senate..

21.  Whenever  a  vacancy  happens  in  the  Senate,  the  President,  or  if  there  is
no  President  or  if  the  President  is  absent  from  the  Commonwealth,  the  Governor-General
  shall  notify  the  same  to  the  Governor  of  the  State  in  the  representation  of
which  the  vacancy  has  happend.

22.  Until  the  Parliament  otherwise  provides,  the  presence  of  at  least  one-third
of  the  whole  number  of  the  senators  shall  be  necessary  to  constitute  &amp;  meeting  of
the  Senate  for  the  exercise  of  its  powers.

23.  Questions  arising  in  the  Senate  shall  be  determined  by  a  majority  of  votes;
and  each  senator  shall  have  one  vote.  The  President  shall  in  all  cases  be  intitled:
to  a  vote;  and  when  the  votes  are  equal  the  question  shall  pass  in  the  negative.

Part  III.  The  House  of  Representatives.

24.  The  House  of  Representatives  shall  be  composed  of  members  directly
chosen  by  the  people  of  the  Commonwealth,  and  the  number  of  such  members  shall
be,  as  nearly  as  practicable,  twice  the  number  of  the  senators.

The  number  of  members  chosen  in  the  several  States  shall  be  in  proportion
to  the  respective  numbers  of  their  people,  and  shall,  until  the  Parliament  otherwise.
provides,  be  determined,  whenever  necessary,  in  the  following  manner  :—

(I.)  A  quota  shall  be  ascertained  by  dividing  the  number  of  the  people  of  the
Commonwealth,  as  shown  by  the  latest  statistics  of  the  Commonwealth,  by  twice
the  number  of  the  Senators:

(II.)  The  number  of  members  to  be  chosen  in  each  State  shall  be  determined
by  dividing  the  number  of  the  people  of  the  State,  as  shown  by  the  latest  statistics
of  the  Commonwealth,  by  the  quota,  and  if  on  such  division  there  is  a  remainder
greater  than  one-half  of  the  quota,  one  more  member  shall  be  chosen  in  the  State.

But  notwithstanding  anything  in  this  section,  five  members  at  least  shall  be
chosen  in  each  Original  State.

25.  For  the  purposes  of  the  last  section,  if  by  the  law  of  any  State  all  persons
of  any  race  are  disqualified  from  voting  at  elections  for  the  more  numerous  House
of  the  Parliament  of  the  State,  then  in  reckoning  the  number  of  the  people  of  the
State  or  of  the  Commonwealth,  persons  of  that  race  resident  in  that  State  shall  not
be  counted.

26.  Notwithstanding  anything  in  sections  twenty-four,  thenumber  of  members
to  be  chosen  in  each  State  at  the  first  election  shall  be  as  follows:

New  South  Wales,  Twenty-three

Victoria,  Twenty
Queensland,  Eight
South  Australia,  Six

Tasmania,  Five..