Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Title:: Part I. Introductory

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6 RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT [PART I members, and from the first to the last ministerial responsi- bility has existed merely by custom. In the case of Natal there is a complete contrast, and a most determined effort was made to secure the principles of constitutional government being inserted in the Act altering the constitution. The reserved Bill, No. 1 of 1892, contained a clause providing that the Governor should designate not more than six ministerial offices within a month from the coming into force of the Act, and thereafter from time to time as might be necessary. The holders of such offices were to be appointed by the Crown and were to hold office during pleasure, and the offices were to be liable to be vacated on political grounds. Each minister should be a member of the Legislative Council, or be or become within four months a member of the Legislative Assembly, but not more than two ministers should be members of the Council at once. Each minister could sit and speak in either house, but vote only in the house of which he was a member. Then it was laid down by s. 12: ‘ The words Governor in Council in this Act or in any other law or Act appearing shall be deemed to mean the Governor acting with the advice of his ministers, and such ministers shall constitute the Executive Council” Lord Knutsford’s dispatch of July 5, 1892, criti- cized this as follows :— 9. I have further to acquaint you that I have discussed with the Delegates various points of detail in which they agree with me that the language of the Bill was capable of improvement without impairing the sense. With one excep- tion these were questions of language or of arrangement which explain themselves. I should, however, observe that the addition to Clause 3 is simply a precaution in case an unforeseen emergency should make it necessary to obtain Legislative authority for any purpose, before the arrange- ments can be completed for inaugurating the new Consti- tution. 10. The one exception to which I refer is in Clause 12, which Clause, as passed, declared that the Ministers should constitute the Executive Council. Such a provision appears out of place in a Constitution Act, of which the primary * Parl. Pap., C. 7013, p. 42.

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