Section
106. Saving of Constitutions
107. Saving of power of State Parliaents
108. Saving of State laws
109. Inconsistency of laws
110. Provisions referring to Governor
111. States may surrender territory
112. States may levy charges for inspection laws
113. Intoxicating liquids
114. States may not raise forces; Taxation of property of
Commonwealth or State
115. States not to coin money
116. Commonwealth not to legislate in respect of
religion
117. Rights of residents in States
118. Recognition of laws, &c. of States
119. Protection of States from invasion and violence
120. Custody of offenders against laws of the Commonwealth
Saving of Constitutions
106. The Constitution of each State of the Commonwealth shall, subject
to this Constitution, continue... until altered in accordance with the
Constitution of the State.
[Edited; see Comment]
Saving of Power of State Parliaments
107. The Parliament of each State has plenary power to make laws for
the peace, welfare and good government of the State, except for any enforceable
restrictions in the Constitution of the State, and except for those powers
which by this Constitution are exclusively vested in the Parliament of the
Commonwealth or withdrawn from the Parliament of the State.
[Liberally edited; see Comment]
Saving of State laws
108. Every law [previously] in force in a Colony... which has become
or becomes a State... shall, subject to this Constitution, continue in force in
the State...until [altered or repealed by] the Parliament of the State.
[Edited; see Comment]
Inconsistency of laws
109. When a law of a State is inconsistent with a law of the
Commonwealth, the latter shall prevail, and the former shall, to the extent of
the inconsistency, be invalid.
[Unaltered]
Provisions referring to Governor
110. The provisions of this Constitution relating to the Governor of a
State extend and apply to the Governor for the time being of the State, or
other chief executive officer or administrator of the government of the
State.
[Unaltered]
States may surrender territory
111. The Parliament of a State may surrender any part of the State to
the Commonwealth; and upon such surrender, and the acceptance thereof by the
Commonwealth, such part of the State shall become subject to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the Commonwealth.
[Unaltered]
States may levy charges for inspection laws
112. A State may levy on imports or exports, or on goods passing into
or out of the State, such charges as may be necessary for executing the
inspection laws of the State; but the net produce of all charges so levied
shall be for the use of the Commonwealth; and any such inspection laws may be
annulled by the Parliament of the Commonwealth.
[Edited; see Comment]
Intoxicating liquids
113. All fermented, distilled, or other intoxicating liquids passing
into any State or remaining therein for use, consumption, sale, or storage,
shall be subject to the laws of the State as if such liquids had been produced
in the State.
[Unaltered]
States may not raise forces. Taxation of property of
Commonwealth or State
114. A State shall not, without the consent of the Parliament of the
Commonwealth, raise or maintain any naval or military force, or impose any tax
on property of any kind belonging to the Commonwealth, nor shall the
Commonwealth impose any tax on property of any kind belonging to a State.
[Unaltered]
States not to coin money
115. A State shall not coin money, nor make anything but gold and
silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts.
[Unaltered]
Commonwealth not to legislate in respect of
religion
116. The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any
religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the
free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a
qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth.
[Unaltered; but see comment]
Rights of residents in States
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.
[Unaltered]
Recognition of laws, &c. of States
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.
[Unaltered]
Protection of States from invasion and
violence
119. The Commonwealth shall protect every State against invasion and,
on the application of the Executive Government of the State, against domestic
violence.
[Unaltered]
Custody of offenders against laws of the
Commonwealth
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.
[Unaltered]
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