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 XVI. The Privy Council

Collection:: Economics Books

184 THE PRIVY COUNCIL. Cabinet, but is often called upon to take the position of premier. As a rule he does not take private practice. To each member of the Privy Council it is usual to assign the administration of a department. But in Canada as in England there may be a minister not holding a portfolio. All the heads of Departments are not necessarily members of the Cabinet. In 1867 the number of Privy Councillors was thirteen, but since then the number has frequently varied >wing to re-organization of departments. Each Minister receives a salary of 7000 dollars per annum, and the member of the Council who holds the position of Prime Minister receives an additional sum of 1000 dollars per annum’, Vacation On being appointed a Privy Councillor a Senator does not im vacate his seat, but a member of the House of Commons ment. does so though he is eligible for re-election? In its first session the Dominion Parliament, in order to preserve the independence of its members, re-enacted a previous act’, disqualifying all persons holding any office under the Crown to which a salary was attached from sitting in either house. Members accepting seats in the Council did not come under this rule, but they were required to be re- elected’. A further act was passed in 1878 in which the same principle was laid down’. The eligibility for re-election of a member of the Privy Council was affirmed, and it was provided in general terms that nothing in the statute should render ineligible any person holding any Cabinet office, or any office thereafter to be created to be held by a member of the Privy Council and entitling him to be a minister of the Crown, or should disqualify him from’ sitting or voting in the House of Commons, provided he be elected while holding such office’. A minister who resigns one office and accepts another Salary, IR. 8. C.c. 4,8 8. : 2R. 8. Ce 11,89. } 20 Vie. c. 22. 4 31 Vie. ¢. 25. 5 7 Vie. c. 65. t 41 Vie. ¢. 5. 7 See R.S. C.c. 11.8. 9.

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