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 XVII. The Dominion Administration

Collection:: Economics Books

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. 207 with law, and to superintend all matters connected with the administration of justice in Canada and not falling within the jurisdiction of any province. He advises upon all legis- lative acts and proceedings of the Legislatures of the different provinces of Canada, and is charged with all duties assigned to him by the Governor-General in Council’. As Attorney-General his powers and duties are as fol- Duties as Wier i eneral. (1) He is entrusted with the powers and charged with the duties, which by law or usage belong to the office of Attorney-General in England so far as the same powers and duties are applicable to Canada. (2) He is entrusted with the powers and duties that by the laws of the several provinces belonged to the office of Attorney-General in each province up to the time when the British North America Act 1867 came into force, which laws under the provisions of such Act are administered and sarried into effect by the Government of the Dominion. (8) He has to advise the Heads of the several Depart- ments of the Government upon all matters of law connected with such departments. (4) He is charged with the settlement and approval of all instruments issued under the Great Seal of Canada. (5) He has the superintendence of penitentiaries and of the prison system of the Dominion. (6) He has the regulation and conduct of all litigation for or against either the Crown or any public department in respect of any subjects within the authority and jurisdiction of the Dominion. (7) He is charged generally with such other duties as may at any time be assigned to him by the Governor-General. A police force has been constituted for the North-West North- . . ' ws West Territories, and at the present time it is under the control Mounted and management of the Minister of Justice. The force is Bolioe, IR SC. ec 2l.

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