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

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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£32 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART III (c) increases or decreases the total number of elective members of either House of the Legislature ; or (d) concerns the election of the elective members of the Legislature, or either House thereof, or the qualifi- cations of electors or elective members. (3) Section thirty-three of the Australian Constitutions Act, 1842, shall apply to Bills reserved under this Act in like manner as it applies to Bills reserved under that Act with the substitution of references to a State forming part of the Commonwealth of Australia for references to the colony of New South Wales, and of references to both Houses of the Legisla- sure of the State for references to the Legislative Council. (4) So much of any Act of Parliament or Order in Council as requires any Bill passed by the Legislature of any such State to be reserved for the signification of His Majesty’s pleasure thereon, or to be laid before the Houses of Parlia- ment before His Majesty’s pleasure is signified, and, in particular, the enactments mentioned in the Schedule to this Act! to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule, shall be repealed both as originally enacted and as incorporated in or applied by any other Act of Parliament ar any Order in Council or letters patent. As if these Imperial restrictions were not sufficient, the Colonial Parliaments in Australia in passing their Constitu- tion Acts added to the variety of the restrictions upon their own powers. Thus in New South Wales alterations of the constitution of the Legislative Council required to be passed on the second and third readings by two-thirds majorities of both Houses in each case. This provision was fortunately repealed in 1857 as regards both Houses; there was an attempt at the time to claim that the repeal was illegal, as the clause could not be altered except by the two-thirds majority required for the alteration of the Legislative Council itself. This view, however, was definitely rejected at the time, and is mainly interesting because it was revived later on in Queensland. In that constitution analogous provisions ' 5 & 6 Vict. c. 76,5. 31 (in part); 7& 8 Vict. c. 74, ss. 7and 8; 13 & 14 Viet. c. 59, ss. 12 (in part), 32 (in part), 33; 18 & 19 Vict. cc. 54 and 55, “. 3 (in part) ; 25 & 26 Vict. ¢. 11, 5. 2; 53 & 54 Vict. c. 26, s. 2 (in part). ? 18 & 19 Vict. ¢. 54,5. 36. In addition reservation and laying before Parliament were required. Reservation is still necessary under 7 Edw. VII. c. 7,8. 1 (1), but not apparently laying before Parliament.

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