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 XV. The Governor-General

Collection:: Economics Books

RIGHT OF PARDON. 171 subject to lawful conditions, or any respite of the execution of the sentence of any such offender for such period as to our said Governor-General may seem fit, and to remit any fines, penalties, or forfeitures which may become due and payable to us. «Provided always, that our said Governor-General shall not si in any case, except where the offence has been of a political nature, make it a condition of any pardon or remission of sentence, that the offender shall be banished from or shall absent himself from our said Dominion. « And we do hereby direct and enjoin that our said Governor-General shall not pardon or reprieve any such offender without first receiving in capital cases the advice of Advice of the Privy Council for our said Dominion, and in other cases Sly the advice of one at least of his ministers; and in any case in which such pardon or reprieve might directly affect the interests of the Empire or of any country or place beyond the jurisdiction of the Government of our said Dominion, our said Governor-General shall before deciding as to either pardon or reprieve. take those interests specially into his own personal consideration in conjunction with such advice as aforesaid.” Tt will be observed that a distinction is drawn in these Instructions between three classes of cases, (1) Capital offences, (2) Non-capital offences, (3) Offences capital or non-capital affecting either Imperial interests or those of any country outside the Dominion. In cases of the first class the Governor- Capital | General is not to act without receiving the advice of his ministry; in cases of the second class he must consult one Non- minister, who will usually be the Minister of Justice ; whilst orm in the third class, in addition to consulting his ministry or Offences one minister as the case may be, he is required to take anal the interests of the Empire or foreign country specially into Tntarests. account. The Instructions do not in express terms require the

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