COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTION ACT - SECT 44
Disqualification
Any person who:
(i) is under any acknowledgment of allegiance, obedience, or adherence
to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or
privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power; or
(ii) is attainted of treason, or has been convicted and is under
sentence, or subject to be sentenced, for any offence punishable under the law
of the Commonwealth or of a State by imprisonment for one year or longer; or
(iii) is an undischarged bankrupt or insolvent; or
(iv) holds any office of profit under the Crown, or any pension payable
during the pleasure of the Crown out of any of the revenues of the
Commonwealth; or
(v) has any direct or indirect pecuniary interest in any agreement with
the Public Service of the Commonwealth otherwise than as a member and in
common with the other members of an incorporated company consisting of more
than twenty-five persons;
shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a senator or a member of
the House of Representatives.
But subsection (iv) does not apply to the office of any of the Queen's
Ministers of State for the Commonwealth, or of any of the Queen's Ministers
for a State, or to the receipt of pay, half pay, or a pension, by any person
as an officer or member of the Queen's navy or army, or to the receipt of pay
as an officer or member of the naval or military forces of the Commonwealth by
any person whose services are not wholly employed by the Commonwealth.
