Constitution of Tasmania

Tasmanian Constitution
Overview
Original title	Constitution Act 1934 (Tas), s. 1
Jurisdiction	Tasmania
Ratified	18 October 1934 (1934-10-18)
Date effective	1 January 1935 (1935-01-01)
System	State Government
Government structure
Branches	Executive Legislative Judicial
Chambers	House of Assembly Legislative Council
Executive	See Tasmanian Government
Judiciary	See Judiciary of Australia
History
Amendments	71
Last amended	Expansion of House of Assembly Act 2022
Supersedes	Constitution Act 1855 (Tas)

The Constitution of Tasmania, also known as the Tasmanian Constitution, sets out the rules, customs and laws that provide for the structure of the Government of the Australian State of Tasmania. Like all state constitutions it consists of both unwritten and written elements which include:

• the Constitution Act 1934 (Tas)
• the Letters Patent of 2005 (which constitutes and outlines the roles and responsibilities of the Governor of Tasmania
• other important constitutional statutes like the Supreme Court Act 1959 or the Electoral Act 2004
• Constitutional conventions
• Common law
• any remaining applicable British legislation of a constitutional nature, like the Bill of Rights 1689
• the Federal Constitution
• the Australia Acts^[1]

The Constitution Act 1934 has been described as the worst of state constitutions by constitutional academic George Williams, most notably for its omission of key institutions such as the Supreme Court and the Governor and lack of effective entrenchments.^[1]