South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts (1) The State shall be
divided into House of Assembly electoral districts in accordance with
the last effective electoral redistribution.
(2) Where the
Commission has published an order dividing the State into House of Assembly
electoral districts, and—
(a) the
order has become operative; and
(b) the
order has not been superseded by a subsequent operative order of
the Commission,
the State shall, as from the day on which a general election of members of the
House of Assembly is next held be divided into the appropriate number of House
of Assembly electoral districts described in the order.
(3) An order of
the Commission becomes operative for the purposes of this section upon the
expiration of the prescribed period from the date of publication of the order.
(4) Each
electoral district shall return one member of the House of Assembly.
(5) In this
section—
"the appropriate number" means a number equal to the number of members of the
House of Assembly from time to time prescribed by section 27 of this Act;
"the Commission" means the Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission
established under Part 5 of this Act;
"the last effective electoral redistribution" means the division of the State
into House of Assembly electoral districts that last took effect under
subsection (2);
"the prescribed period", in relation to an order of the Commission,
means—
(a)
where no appeal has been made against the order—the period of three
months from the date of publication of the order; or
(b)
where an appeal has been made against the order—the period extending
from the date of publication of the order to the date falling three months
after the day on which all appeals have been finally determined.