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

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152 THE METHOD OF LEGISLATION. in general terms and do not directly ask for public aid or which ask the House only to take the facts into its consideration or to adopt such measures as the House may shink it expedient to take. Petitions Up to 1876 petitions asking for imposition of duties regarding were not received, but in that year it was thought advisable to alter the practice and to receive them. Petitions also are received asking for bounties for a particular industry, for remission on public grounds of taxes or duties, or for compensation for losses through legislation, but a petition in which a bounty is demanded for a particular individual, or which prays for remission of a debt due to the Crown® 's not received. Every private bill is initiated by means of a petition, and such petition is governed by the ordinarv rules regulating oetitions. Opposition to private bills also is commenced by a oetition, A public bill may originate in either House, except when it involves an appropriation of the revenue or imposes a tax”. The method of procedure in the Senate differs in some respects from that adopted in the House of Commons, but both Houses have followed very closely the English practice. In the Commons a bill passes through seven stages, viz. (1) Introduction, (2) First reading, (3) Second reading, (4) Committee, (5) Report, (6) Third reading, (7) Passing. Three By the standing orders of each House the three readings eadines. ore as a rule to be on separate days, except in the case of aills of an urgent nature®, The Senate in a case of urgency formally suspends its standing orders, but in the Commons it is sufficient for the House to declare the matter nroent’ . Burinot, p. 266. 2 See Burinot, p. 268, 3 B. N. A. Act, 1867, 5. 58. 4 Sen. 8. 0. 41, 42, Com. 8. O. 43. 5 Burinot, np. 559.

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