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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.
