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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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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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tuar. v] THE PRIVILEGES AND PROCEDURE 459 This Act shall not come into operation unless and until the officer administering the Government notifies by pro- clamation that it is Her Majesty’s pleasure not to disallow the same and thereafter it shall come into operation on such day as the officer administering the Government shall notify by the same or any other proclamation. The assent to the Acts passed by the Parliament is given in various forms in various Colonies : in some cases it is usually given by commission, in others the Governor personally attends the Parliament and gives assent, or he may assent to it at the Government offices! The words of assent are borrowed from the English form, and the words of assent to an Appropriation Bill are still the same as in England, but they are pronounced in English, not in Norman French. In Canada and Quebec the words are said both in English and also in French, as the legislatures are bilingual in these matters under the British North America Act, and the same remark as to English and Dutch applies to the Union Parliament. The use of language in parliamentary proceedings is of some interest and importance. In the Union Act of 1840 it was expressly provided that all instruments for summoning the Parliament, for dissolving it and proroguing it, and all returns to instruments, all journals, entries, and written proceedings of the two Houses, and all written or printed proceedings of reports of committees of the two Houses, should be in English only, and copies in French, though not prohibited, were not to be allowed to be recorded among the archives. No attempt was, very wisely, made to enforce the use of English in the Houses, and the French language was used from the first in debates, the first Speaker of the Assem- bly, Mr. Cuvillier, being a French member of Parliament. Various rules were made to secure the translation of all matter into French, and in 1841 an Act was passed to secure the translation into French of all statutes and similar the bill be reserved is absurd, but harmless ; see New Zealand Parl. Pap., 1902, A. 1, pp. 9, 12, 13; A. 2, p. 20. ' Where a Bill is reserved, the due publication of assent is essential, or the Bill is not validly an Act; see Western Australia Act No. 14 of 1905, %. 65. In 1911 there was an amusing dispute in Canada with regard to the assent being given by a Deputy instead of the Governor-General.

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