Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter II. The commonwealth of Australia

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316 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART Iv (xxix) External affairs? ; (xxx) The relations of the Commonwealth with the islands of the Pacific ; (xxxi) The acquisition of property on just terms from any state or person for any purpose in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws ; [The law on the subject is laid down in the Lands Acquisition Act, 1906.] xxxii) The control of railways with respect to transport for the naval and military purposes of the Commonwealth ; ‘xxxiii) The acquisition, with the consent of a state, of any railways of the state on terms arranged between the Commonwealth and the state ; [This power, with the next, is exercised by Act No. 25 of 1910 regarding the transfer of the Northern Territory.) (xxxiv) Railway construction and extension in any state with the consent of that state ; (xxxv) Conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes extending beyond the limits of any one state ; [This power has been exercised in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904, as amended in 1909 (No. 28) and 1910 (No. 7).] ‘xxxvi) Matters in respect of which this Constitution makes provision until the Parliament otherwise provides ; 'xxxvii) Mattersreferred to the Parliament of the Common- wealth by the Parliament or Parliaments of any state or states, but so that the law shall extend only to states by whose Parliaments the matter is referred. or which afterwards adopt the law 2; xxxviil) The exercise within the Commonwealth, at the request or with the concurrence of the Parliaments of all the states directly concerned, of any power which can at the establishment of this Constitution be exercised only by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. or by the Federal Council of Australasia 2; fxxxix) Matters incidental to the execution of any power vested by this Constitution in the Parliament or in either House thereof, or in the Government of the Common- wealth, or in the Federal Judicature, or in any depart- ment or officer of the Commonwealth. t See Extradition Act, 1903 ; High Commissioner Act, 1905-9. Harrison Moore, op. cit., p. 461, thinks treaties fall under this head: cf. also, McKelvey v. Meagher, 4 C. L. R. 265, at p. 278. ! On this head no legislation has yet been passed. xxxviii is not of course an authority to alter Imperial Acts: see Harrison Moore, p. 487 ; Quick and Garran, pp. 650. 651,

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