The Constitution of Canada

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Identifikator:: 1895543282

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-242408

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Munro, Joseph Edwin Crawford http://d-nb.info/gnd/1113111038

Title:: The Constitution of Canada

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1889

Scope:: XXXVI, 356 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XIV. The method of legislation

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAPTER XIV. THE METHOD OF LEGISLATION. THE method of legislation is regulated by (1) statutes, How regu. (2) standing orders and rules adopted by Parliament, and fated. (3) customs. Some provisions affecting the procedure of Parliament Statute, are to be found in the British North America Act 1867. The 54th section, for instance, enacts, that it is not lawful for the House of Commons to pass any vote, resolution, address, or bill for the appropriation of any part of the public revenue or any tax, to any purpose that has not been recommended to that House by message of the Governor-General, and the 133rd section requires all acts of the Parliament of Canada bo be printed in both French and English. With the above exceptions the procedure in either House Standing is mainly governed by rules based on the practice of the tl English Parliament. In the early legislative councils of Sossin. Upper and of Lower Canada the practice of the House of Lords was adopted’; but when legislative assemblies were summoned they resolved to follow as far as circumstances would permit the rules, orders and usages of the English House of Commons®. When the Dominion Parliament met in 1867, the House of Commons appointed a Committee to frame rules for governing the procedure in that House, and ! Burinot, p. 212. “2 Ih, p. 212. Christie’s Low. Can. 130-139,

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