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

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ITS FUNCTIONS. 185 within one month after his resignation does not vacate his seat, unless the ministry to which he belonged has resigned and a new administration has been formed. It is now the rule that, on a change of ministry, all Resign. outgoing ministers should resign their seats or be removed, as ation. it is not deemed expedient that retiring ministers should retain a seat in the Council as in England, but ex-ministers have a special precedence within the Dominion and are styled “ Honourable” for life’, FUNCTIONS OF THE COUNCIL. The functions of the Privy Council as regards the Governor- General are governed by two leading ideas. First: In all prerogative matters and matters in which Imperial interests are concerned, the Governor-General, though bound to pay every consideration to the advice of his Ministers, is not bound to follow it. Secondly: In all other matters the Governor-General is expected to follow and adopt their advice. 1. As regards Legislation. (1) Initiation of Legislation. Two classes of legislation Legisla- require to be distinguished, (a) Money bills, (b) Ordinary ve re. legislation. (a) Bills, involving the imposition of a tax or the Money appropriation of the revenues, require to be recommended to Ts the House of Commons by the Governor-General’, and in exercising that statutory power the Governor-General adopts the constitutional practice of consulting his ministry. (0) Though any bill, except a money bill, may bé intro- Other duced into either House by any member, in Canada, as in Bills. England, the Executive controls legislation. By the standing { Todd, pp. 42, 231. 2 B. N. A, Act 1867, s. 54.

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