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

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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$30 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART IIIf legislation which adopted the provisions in the constitution. The provisions were again adopted with regard to New South Wales by s. 3 of the Constitution Act, and also by the same section of the Constitution Act of Victoria. Bills, therefore, affecting the election of the elected members of the Legisla- tive Council of Victoria! or altering the laws concerning the qualification of electors or elected members of the Legislative Assembly of either Victoria or New South Wales required to be reserved and laid before Parliament. In the case of Tasmania there was no such provision, and reservation of such Bills was not required unless they also fell within the terms of s. 31 of the Act of 1842. In the case of South Australia 8. 34 of the Constitution Act of 1855-6 required that any Bills altering the Constitution of the Legislative Council or House of Assembly should be reserved, but not that they should be laid before Parliament. In the case of Western Australia, as in the case of New South Wales and Victoria, the provisions of the Act of 1850 were repeated in the Con- stitution Act of 1890, and Bills of the classes mentioned were required to be reserved and laid before Parliament. The same result arose in the case of Bills of Queensland by the operation of the letters patent of June 6, 1859. The result of these Acts was constant confusion and difficulty. It is sufficient to note that the Electoral Act, No. 10 of 1856, of South Australia was in error not reserved by the Governor, and thus the whole constitution of the Parliament elected under its terms was vitiated, so that an Imperial Act of 1862 2 had hastily to be passed to cure the defects, and further doubts had to be removed by the Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865. Moreover, under fresh difficulties later Acts were required, and Bills of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania were validated in 1893, and in 1901 a set of New South Wales, Queensland, and Western Australia laws were validated, having not been passed with proper formalities. The Upper House of New South Wales is nominee, '25 & 26 Vict. c. 11. See also 26 & 27 Viet. c. 84. See Blackmore, Constitution of South Australia, Pp. 38 seq.

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