Deutsche Geschichte: Urzeit und Mittelalter

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Identifikator:: 876559135

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-1676

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Borght, Richard van der http://d-nb.info/gnd/11625274X

Title:: Grundzüge der Sozialpolitik

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Verlag von C. L. Hirschfeld

Year of publication:: 1904

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 566 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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CHAPTER VIII THE CIVIL SERVICE As in the United Kingdom, the Dominions all recognize the principle of a permanent Civil Service to conduct the executive and administrative work of the departments. But there are certain broad differences between the cases of the Dominions and the United Kingdom. In the first place, the ministers of the Dominions are expected, as is natural in view of the less complicated conditions prevailing there, to do much more routine work than is done in the United Kingdom, and, partly as a cause of this, partly as a result, the Dominions do not show a Civil Service com- parable with the upper division of the Imperial Civil Service, nor normally do civil servants play so important a part in the Colonial Government. To some extent this may be attributed to the democratic desire to render all posts available to all, and to permit entry to the Civil Service by an elementary examination followed by routine work and eventual promotion. In the second place, the whole system, as applied in Australasia, is one of elaborate legal regulation, while the Home Civil Service depends on Executive Orders in Council, subject only to the Pension Acts and the ordinary law. An English civil servant holds still at pleasure, but by practice he holds during good behaviour. There are no boards established or rules laid down as to his dismissal, but practically he has the fullest investigation, and is removed only on the decision of a minister of the Crown acting for the Crown. Again, in the Dominions promotions * This is still the case in the Colonies save where otherwise expressly provided, and the royal instructions to the State Governors and New Zealand and Newfoundland require it when law does not otherwise provide. Canada generally is much less fond of legal regulation than Australasia in this as in other matters. See Shenton v. Smith, [1895] A. C. 229 ; Dunn v. Reg., [189611 Q. B. 116. Of. 189711 Q. B. 555; below, p. 349. note 2.

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