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applies to the naval forces raised and provided by a Dominion before
or after the Act to which the provisions of the Naval Discipline
Act, 1866, and amending Acts have been made applicable, the Act of
1866 as amended subject to any adaptations which may have been
or may be made by the Dominion to adapt the Act to the circum-
stances of the Dominion, including the substitution of Governor-
General for Admiralty, and empowers the Crown by Order in Council
to modify the Act so as to regulate the relations of the Imperial
forces to those of the Dominions, but if the ships of a Dominion are
placed at the disposal of the Admiralty the Act of 1866 shall apply
without such modifications and adaptations. The Act does not
operate in any case unless provision is made for its coming into
effect by the Dominion, and presumably the Dominion Parliament
can terminate its effect as regards that Dominion. The Common-
wealth in 1911 has amended its Naval Defence Act of 1910 and has
reduced the length of senior cadet training.
The Union of South Africa do not propose in their Defence
Bill to start a naval force, but only to continue the Royal Naval
Reserve branch, while they will develop the artillery forces which
now serve to supplement the Imperial garrison artillery!
Page 1588. The power of the Governor to grant lands in the
absence of an Act is also discussed in Cunard v. The King, 43 8. C. R.
38, especially at pp. 95-8 by Duift J.
! The Naval Reserve will be formed under the authority of the Imperial
Acts of 1865 and 1909 (see ss. 21, 22). The Bill provides also for compulsory
cadet training from 13-17 in populous areas (s. 6), and for a military college
on a modest scale (s. 47). The Memorandum accompanying the Bill recog-
nizes (p. 4) that defence of the coast and shipping depend on the British Navy,
but (p. 1) asserts the duty of South Africa to assume a responsibility for her
own defence. Co-operation with Imperial military forces is provided for in
ss. 13, 15, 97. The Act will ultimately repeal Cape Acts No. 32 of 1892, 4 of
1893, 16 of 1895, Natal No. 36 of 1905, 30 of 1905, 36 of 1906; Transvaal
Ordinances No. 37 of 1904 ; Act No. 21 of 1908, and it repeals forthwith Cape
Acts No. 7 of 1878, 4 of 1884; Natal No. 22 of 1907; Orange River Colony
Ordinance No. 25 of 1905; and the Cape and Natal Naval Volunteers Acts of
1908 and 1907.
