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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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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

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

Collection:: Economics Books

thar. v] THE PRIVILEGES AND PROCEDURE 455 with legislative business; (d) assaults upon or interference with officers of the Assembly in the discharge of their duties ; (e) tampering with witnesses in respect of any evidence given before the Assembly or a committee; (f) presenting any forged document to the Assembly; (g) forging documents or records of the Assembly ; (A) bringing an action against or causing the arrest of a member for anything done by him in the Assembly ; (¢) causing the arrest or molestation of a member for a civil suit. The punishment to be awarded is imprisonment during such portion of the session as the Legislative Assembly may award, and the determination of the Assembly is to be final and conclusive. If any action is brought against the printer of any record of proceedings of the Assembly it shall be stayed by production of the original with an affidavit of the correctness of the copy, and the publication of extracts is protected if bona fide and without malice. The arrest and detention of any person under the authority of the Act is to be effected by the serjeant-at-arms or the keeper of the common jail in Edmonton, or the officer commanding the Royal North-West Mounted Police of the Edmonton district. It will be seen that the powers taken are pretty much the same as those of the Imperial House of Commons, though they do not expressly go so far as the powers of that House. In the case of one of the earliest Acts, that of Tasmania, in 1858, it is laid down expressly that to a writ of habeas corpus issued it will be a conclusive answer that the prisoner is in custody under the authority of a warrant under the hand of the President of the Legislative Council or Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, providing for his detention on the ground of a contempt, the contempt to be set out in words to show under which of the heads enumerated in s. 3 of the Act the contempt falls. This is not the wide power to commit without specifying a contempt claimed and allowed to the House of Commons. The power of punishment in the case of Tasmania also is limited to the period of the session, and this is a rule in all cases, as in England. Moreover the Colonial Parliaments do not usually confer any right to punish by fine, a right which, though

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