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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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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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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304 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [paRrT II committee of the Legislative Council of Natal, which drafted the bill for the Act by which responsible government was given, were informed that to create the Executive Council was not proper for a Colonial Act, as the matters should be left to the prerogative. It thus happened that the letters patent which confer on the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony self-government say nothing of the Executive Council, and the mention of that institution is found only in the letters patent creating the office of Governor. On the other hand, in the case of the Dominion, the Commonwealth, and the Union of South Africa, the letters patent are silent as to the Executive Council altogether. It has been seen above that ministerial responsibility to Parliament is very imperfectly secured by law in the Dominions. In Canada the result is really not secured at all, for though in Nova Scotia! New Brunswick, and British Columbia? the number of Executive Councillors is defined as nine, nine, and seven (increased to eight by an Act of 1911) respectively, there is no provision for these Councillors being members of the Legislature. In Newfoundland the position is the same. In New South Wales there is no provision requiring an Executive Councillor to be a member of Parliament ; so in Tasmania and Queensland ; in South Australia, s. 32 of the Constitution Act, 1855-6, provides that certain persons shall be members of the Executive Council ex officio, and must not hold office for more than three months without seat in one or other of the Houses of the Legislature. In Victoria eight members of the Executive Council may 3 have seats in the two Houses, of whom two may be in the ! Revised Statutes, 1900, ¢. 9,5. 1. The number in New Brunswick (Rev. Stat., 1903, c. 10) is not limited, but the old limit by the letters patent of 1861 was nine, and until changed itis binding. It is unlimited in any other province, though in all some persons are ex officio members ; see Ontario Act 1908, ¢. 6 ; Quebec Rev. Stat., 1909, s. 573 ; Manitoba Rev. Stat., 1902, c. 59; Saskatchewan Act 1908, c¢. 3; Alberta Act 1909, c¢. 6. There is no limit of numbers in Prince Edward Island ; there was none before 1873 in the letters patent, and the constitution is not changed by Acts so far in this regard. ? Act 1908, c. 12. * And four must.

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