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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896934455

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

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

Collection:: Economics Books

160 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [part 11 to the powers of the Governor-General to act in connexion with his Council. The instructions to Lord Dufferin contem- plated that he should summon the Council, and empowered him as follows :— If in any case you see sufficient cause to dissent from the opinion of the major part or of the whole of our said Privy Council so present it shall be competent for you to execute the powers and authorities vested in you by our said com- mission and by these our instructions in opposition to such their opinion, it being nevertheless our pleasure that in every case it shall be competent to any member of our said Privy Council to record at length on the minutes of our said Council the grounds and reasons of any advice or opinion he may give upon any question brought under the consideration of sur Council. The next clause but one required the keeping of exact minutes of the Council, and the confirmation of the minutes. In the new draft Clause V provided for the Governor-General presiding at Council meetings; Clause VI for the keeping of minutes; Clause VII for consultation except in urgent or trivial cases, and in urgent cases for subsequent communica- tion of his action; Clause VIII, the power to act in the exercise of the power committed to him by the said commission, in opposition to the advice which might in any such case be given to him by the members of the said Executive Council, but requiring in such cases a report of his action with the grounds and the reason thereof. On these clauses the minister commented as follows :— Clause 5. This Clause corresponds with the existing clause 6; but it contains a new provision, directing and enjoining the Governor to attend and preside at the meetings of the Council, unless when prevented by some necessary or reasonable cause. The practice for a very great number of years has been that the business of Council is done in the absence of the Governor. On very exceptional occasions the Governor may preside, but these would occur only at intervals of years and would probably be for the purpose of taking a formal decision on some extraordinary occasion, and not for deliberation. The mode in which the business is done is by a report to the Governor of the recommendations of the Council sitting as a Committee, sent to the Governor for his con-

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