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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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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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 II. The executive Government

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cuar. 1] THE POWERS OF THE GOVERNOR 119 which desire to have the advantage of the royal approval as conveyed by the grant of a charter. The prerogative, though thus it cannot be said to be dead, is not one which can possibly be exercised by a Governor. Again, the Governor has no right to confer honours of any sort, and the Privy Council has denied that the power can be so delegated, save by statute! The bestowal of honours can clearly not, on any reasonable theory, be regarded as a necessary part of a Colonial administration, and there is no instance where the power to confer any honour has been recognized. The rule has been extended to the case of a medal intended merely to be a local reward issued for services in New Zealand, though there the matter was arranged by the ex post facto approval of the Crown to the grant being conveyed to the Governor.2 Tt is true that the Governor is given by the Colonial Regulations, confirming various instruc- tions by dispatch and otherwise, a limited right to regulate precedence in the absence of authoritative instructions, but the general rules of precedence emanate from the Sovereign. Moreover, the Governor or Governor-General isnot entitled to perform the act of investiture of a man with an order granted by the Crown without special permission from the Crown. This permission has been given from time to time to the Governor-General of Canada and the Governor-General of the Commonwealth, and since 1910 to the Governor- General of the Union of South Africa? But though these officers have been authorized by letters patent of 1902 to invest officers upon whom the two highest classes of the O.M.G. have been conferred, they have not received autho- rity to dub a man a knight ; this must either be done by © Attorney-General for Dominion of Canada v. Attorney-General for Province sf Ontario, [1898] A. C. 247, at p. 252. * See Parl. Pap., C. 83, pp. 42, 190. ' The Duke of Connaught on opening the Union Parliament in South Africa in 1910 invested several recipients of honours. In 1879 the Marquess of Lorne was permitted on May 24 to invest six members of the (Canadian Government with the insignia of K.C.M.G., a then unprecedented occurrence in a Colony. For the present practice elsewhere see New Zealand Parl. Pap., 1904, A. 2, p. 7.

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