2. Admission of New Territory: The Parliament of the Federation may from time to time by Act include new territories in Schedule I upon such terms as it thinks fit.
[Cf. —Art IV. Section 3(1), of the Constitution of the United States of America and Section 121 of the Australian Constitution. The power to admit new States is vested in the Congress in the United States of America and in the Commonwealth Parliament in Australia.
As a matter of nomenclature it may be explained that in this draft the Legislature of the Federation is referred to as “Parliament”; unit Legislatures are referred to as “Legislatures”. The Federal Parliament consists of the President and a National Assembly comprising two Houses.]