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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

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

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Year of publication:: 1912

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car. vir] CABINET SYSTEM IN DOMINIONS 307 of a minister of course does not vacate a seat, or the acceptance of another post, or of two portfolios. Elsewhere the practice varies ; for example, in New South Wales in 19062 the rule of non-re-election was adopted, and it has always been in force in South Australia and New Zealand ; it is now in force in Tasmania and in Queensland. In the Cape, the Transvaal, the Orange River Colony, and Natal it was never introduced, and the Union of South Africa, like the Commonwealth, follows the same model. In the other states it remains in force, but it may be hoped that it will not be perpetuated. It has indeed been atgued by Mr. Todd? that it tends to stability of government by diminishing the other- wise constant changes of administrators of departments, and in the case of the Commonwealth there may be something in this, but there is really nothing else substantial in favour of so troublesome and so expensive a course of action. § 2. THE PrIME MINISTER AND THE CABINET The rules as to the Cabinet are much the same as in England ; the Prime Minister chooses his colleagues,except in the case of Labour parties in Australia, where in Mr. Fisher’s Ministry of 1908 and 1910 the caucus have asserted the right to select the Ministry,leaving the Prime Minister to assign the offices! but the result seems substantially in accordance with the wishes of the Prime Minister; his predecessor, Mr. Watson, selected his own colleagues. The resignation of the Premier breaks up a Ministry, and even if there is a reconstruction and no formal handing over of the offices takes place, the Government is deemed to have resigned en bloc until the new ! Ontario Act, 1908, c¢. 5, s. 15; Quebec Revised Statutes, 1909, ss. 147, 148; Nova Scotia, Revised Statutes, 1900, c. 2, s. 19; New Brunswick, Rev. Stat., 1903, c. 3, s. 12; Manitoba Rev. Stat., 1902, c. 96, 8. 20; Prince Edward Island Act, 1908, c. 1, 8. 25; Saskatchewan Act, 1906, c. 4, 8. 15; Alberta Act, 1909, c. 2, 5. 16. * Parliamentary Elections Act, 1906,s.60. Cf. the proposals of the Govern- ment in Western Australia in 1910; Parliamentary Debates, 1910, p. 828. Re-election is still required in Victoria also. * Parliamentary Government in the British Colonies,! p. 47.. * Harrison Moore, The Commonwealth of Australia,” pp. xxvi, 168, note La X2

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