Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

Bibliographic data

Multivolume work

Identifikator:: 1896933912

Document type:: Multivolume work

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Volume

Identifikator:: 1896934455

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

Document type:: Volume

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

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Multivolume work

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAP.vV] THE PRIVILEGES AND PROCEDURE 449 the privileges of Parliament are to be such as are appointed by Parliament by legislation : until then they are to be those which are enjoyed by the Imperial House of Commons from time to time. Thus the House of Commons privileges are to be the minimum which the Commonwealth has; it may increase these privileges by ordinary legislation, though it has not yet done so. An Act, No. 16, was passed in 1908 to protect parliamentary prints from the danger of libel actions. In the Cape of Good Hope and Newfoundland the Constitution Acts contained no hint as to privileges at all, and the privi- leges of the Houses rest on ordinary legislation ; by s. 57 of the South Africa Act, 1909, the privileges of the Parliament of the Union are to be those of the Cape Lower House until Parliament decides otherwise. It has defined its code by Act No. 19 of 1911, and has imposed on future Acts the constitutional obligation that the privileges exercised must not exceed those of the House of Commons from time to time. In the case of New South Wales! Tasmania, and Queensland,® the Constitution Acts and the letters patent refer merely to the power of each House adopting standing orders, and in New South Wales there is still no Act conferring privileges on the House. In Tasmania, on the other hand, the defect was removed in 1858 by a local Act, and in Queensland by an Act, 25 Vict. No. 7, which was consolidated in the Constitution Act of 18672 so that the matter is now part of the constitution of the Colony and subject to alteration only in the manner appropriate in such cases. In the Transvaal® and the Orange River Colony ¢ the constitutions allowed each House to take by legislation the privileges of the House of Commons from time to time, or any less privileges, and this privilege was availed of by the Transvaal by the Parliamentary Privileges Act, 1907. When legislation has been passed there is no doubt of its effect, provided of course it does not infringe the constitution : t 18 & 19 Viet. c. 54, sched. s. 35. * Act 18 Viet. No. 17 5, 29. } Letters Patent, June 6, 1859, s. 13. 4 31 Viet. No. 38, ss. 41-56. * Letters Patent, December 6, 1906, s. 33. ¢ Letters Patent, June 5, 1907, s. 35. See now South Africa Act No. 19 of 1911. 1279

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

Multivolume work

Volume

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Volume

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation