The Constitution (Amendment No. 1) Act 1925 (previously

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no. 30 of 1925) was an Act of the

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amending the

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. The Act added two new articles to the Constitution, Articles 31A and 32A. The new Article 31A provided that the term of office of the first Senators would run from 6 December 1922. The Act became obsolete on the repeal of the 1922 Constitution by the

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in 1937, and was formally repealed by the

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. The practice of numbering new constitutional articles by adding an "A" was also used for amendments to the

, such as Article 28A on Local Government added by the Twentieth Amendment in 1999 or Article 42A on Children added by the Thirty-first Amendment in 2015.

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