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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTION ACT - SECT 34 Qualifications of members
Until the Parliament otherwise provides, the qualifications of a member of
the House of Representatives shall be as follows:
(i)
he must be of the full age of twenty-one years, and must be an elector
entitled to vote at the election of members of the House of Representatives, or
a person qualified to become such elector, and must have been for three years
at the least a resident within the limits of the Commonwealth as existing at
the time when he is chosen;
(ii)
he must be a subject of the Queen, either natural-born or for at least
five years naturalized under a law of the United Kingdom, or of a Colony which
has become or becomes a State, or of the Commonwealth, or of a State.