This Act may be cited as the Legislature Amendment Act, 1922, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Legislature Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

The boundaries of the Electoral District of Lyttelton, as fixed by the South Island Representation Commission and as set out in a Proclamation dated the twentieth day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-first day of the same month, are hereby altered so as to include within that district the area comprised in the Chatham Islands:

Provided that for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, the said islands shall continue to be a special licensing district within the meaning of that Act, and shall not form part of the Lyttelton Licensing District.

The names of persons resident in the said islands and qualified to be enrolled as electors of the said Electoral District of Lyttelton shall be entered on a special supplementary roll or rolls for that district, prepared pursuant to regulations to be made in that behalf by the Governor-General in Council, and it shall not be necessary for any such roll to be printed.

For the purposes of the election of members of the House of Representatives under Part IV of the principal Act (relating to Maori representation) the Chatham Islands shall be deemed to form part of the Western Maori Electoral District.

Every poll of the electors of the said district (including any poll taken for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908) shall be taken in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations to be made in that behalf by the Governor-General in Council.

The validity of any election or licensing poll shall not be questioned on the ground that anything required to be done pursuant to this Act or to regulations thereunder has not been done, or has been irregularly done, or that for any reason it has been found impracticable to receive the vote of any person who is entitled to vote by virtue of this Act, or that any person who has voted was not entitled to vote by virtue of this Act.