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religion,  and  no  religious  test  shall  be  required  as  a  qualification  for  any  office  or
public  trust  under  the  Commonwealth.

117.  A  subject  of  the  Queen,  resident  in  any  State,  shall  not  be  subject  in  any
other  State  to  any  disability  or  discrimination  which  would  not  be  equally  applicable
to  him  if  he  were  a  subject  of  the  Queen  resident  in  such  other  State.

118.  Full  faith  and  credit  shall  be  given,  throughout  the  Commonwealth,  to
the  laws,  the  public  acts  and  records,  and  the  judicial  proceedings  of  every  State.

119.  The  Commonwealth  shall  protect  every  State  against  invasion  and,  on
the  application  of  the  Executive  Government  of  the  State,  against  domestic  violence.

120.  Every  State  shall  make  provision  for  the  detention  in  its  prisons  of  persons
accused  or  convicted  of  offences  against  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth,  and  for
the  punishment  of  persons  convicted  of  such  offences,  and  the  Parliament  of  the
Commonwealth  may  make  laws  to  give  effect  to  this  provision.

Chapter  VI.  New  States.

121.  The  Parliament  admit  to  the  Commonwealth  or  establish  new  States,
and  may  upon  such  admission  or  establishment  make  or  impose  such  terms  and
conditions,  including  the  extend  of  representation  in  either  House  of  the  Parliament,
as  it  thinks  fit.

122.  The  Parliament  may  make  laws  for  the  government  of  any  territory
surrendered  by  any  State  to  and.accepted  by  theCommonwealth,  or  of  any  territory
placed  by  the  Queen  under  the  authority  and  accepted  by  the  Commonwealth,  or
otherwise  acquired  by  the  Commonwealth,  and  may  allow  the  representation  of
such  territory  in  either  House  of  the  Parliament  to  the  extent  and  on  the  terms
which  it  thinks  fit.

123.  The  Parliament  of  the  Commonwealth  may,  with  the  consent  of  the  Parliament
  of  a  State,  and  the  approval  of  the  majority  of  the  electors  of  the  State
voting  upon  the  question,  increase,  diminish  or  otherwise  alter  the  limits  of  the
State,  upon  such  terms  and  conditions  as  may  be  agreed  upon,  and  may  with  the
like  consent,  make  provision  respecting  the  effect  and  operation  of  any  increase  or
diminution  or  alteration  of  territory  in  relation  to  any  State  affected.

124.  A  new  State  may  be  formed  by  separation  of  territory  from  a  State,  but
only  with  the  consent  of  the  Parliament  thereof,  and  a  new  State  may  be  formed
by  the  union  of  two  or  more  States  or  parts  of  States,  but  only  with  the  consent  of
the  Parliament  of  the  States  affected.

Chapter  VIL  Miscellaneous.

125.  The  seat  of  Government  of  the  Commonwealth  shall  be  determined  by  the
Parliament,  and  shall  be  within  territory  which  shall  have  been  granted  to  or  acquired
  by  the  Commonwealth,  and  shall  be  vested  in  and  belong  to  the  Commonwealth,
  and  shall  be  in  the  State  of  New  South  Wales,  and  be  distant  not  less  than
one  hundred  miles  from  Sidney.