Title: Constitution (Permissible Tolerance) AmendmentBill 2020
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Last saved by: Armstrong, Shirley (AGD)
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House of Assembly—No 53
As laid on the table and read a first time, 3 June 2020

Constitution (Permissible Tolerance) Amendment Bill 2020
Contents

Constitution (Permissible Tolerance) Amendment Bill 2020

Constitution (Permissible Tolerance) Amendment Bill 2020
Part 1—Preliminary

Constitution (Permissible Tolerance) Amendment Bill 2020
Preliminary—Part 1

Constitution (Permissible Tolerance) Amendment Bill 2020
Part 2—Amendment of Constitution Act 1934

Constitution (Permissible Tolerance) Amendment Bill 2020
Amendment of Constitution Act 1934—Part 2

South Australia
Constitution (Permissible Tolerance) Amendment Bill 2020
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Constitution Act 1934.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Commencement
3	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Constitution Act 1934
4	Amendment of section 77—Basis of redistribution

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Constitution (Permissible Tolerance) Amendment Act 2020.
2—Commencement
The commencement and operation of this Act is subject to the operation of the Referendum (Permissible Tolerance) Act 2020.
3—Amendment provisions
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Constitution Act 1934
4—Amendment of section 77—Basis of redistribution
	(1)	Section 77(1)—delete "the number of electors comprised in each electoral district must not (as at the relevant date) vary from the electoral quota by more than the permissible tolerance" and substitute:
, for each electoral district (as at the relevant date)—
	(a)	if the electoral district has an area of less than 100 000 km^2—the number of electors comprised in the district must not differ from the electoral quota by more than the permissible tolerance; or
	(b)	if the electoral district has an area of 100 000 km^2 or more—the sum of the number of electors comprised in the district and the additional large district number must not differ from the electoral quota by more than the permissible tolerance.
	(2)	Section 77(2)—before the definition of electoral quota insert:
additional large district number means 1% of the number of km^2 in the area of the electoral district;

HA GP 414-B: Mr Troy Bell MP