Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current ActsWhere a member of the Council who holds a seat at the commencement of this Act for an old province and whose entitlement to hold the seat expires on 14 July 1985 resigns the seat for the purpose of seeking election for the Assembly at a simultaneous election of the Council and the Assembly held before that date, the member elected at that election for the new province that corresponds to that old province and whose entitlement to the seat for that new province commences on 15 July 1985—
(a) shall be deemed to have been elected at an election to fill the place of the first-mentioned member for the old province and to be entitled to hold the seat for the old province during the unexpired portion of the period for which the first-mentioned member was elected; and
(b) shall, for the purposes of section 6 of the Parliamentary Salaries and Superannuation Act 1968 , be entitled to payment under that section from and including the day appointed for taking the poll at that election.