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

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Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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470 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [part III which Lord Normanby said was probably due to the desire of a Speaker not to prevent further consideration, as is the rule in England, and which therefore could not be used to prove, as Sir George Grey tried to use it, that he had the confidence of the House! It would seem, however, that the Speaker would do well in such cases to conform to the practice in the Imperial Parliament : any other course turns him into a partisan, and it is most desirable that no Speaker should occupy that position, while the Imperial rule would always ensure that the Speaker himself would not be credited with responsibility for any decision, and that the House would be able to consider freely what course of action it should adopt. This rule was recently claimed by the President of the Transvaal Legislative Council to have governed his action in all cases. In 1874 Mr. Carter’s Ministry in Newfoundland was only kept in office by the vote of the Speaker? and on what was a vote of censure in 1903 in British Columbia the Speaker supported the Government? In 1907 the President in the Cape laid down the rule that he should try to have funds voted and the Government carried on. The Governor-General or Governor has in every case by law the power to prorogue or dissolve Parliament besides the power to summon it, though the latter power is subject to the rule of annual Parliaments and must be exercised in view of it. The power is also given in the letters patent, though ' New Zealand Parl. Pap., 1877, A. 7. * Prowse, History of Newfoundland, p. 499. } Canadian Annual Review,1903, p. 213. For another case (Cape Speaker, in 1897) see Wilmot, South Africa, iii. 331. ¢ See Legislative Council Debates, 1907, pp. 357 seq. See Canada, 30 Vict. c. 3, ss. 20, 38, 50; Ontario and Quebec, ss. 82, 85, 86; in the Rev. Stat, of all the provinces except Prince Edward Island (Act 1893, c. 21; 1908, e. 1), Alberta (Act 1909, c. 2), Saskatchewan (Act 1908, c. 4) ; Newfoundland, Consol. Stat., c. 2; Commonwealth, 63 & 64 Vict. c. 12, Const. ss. 5, 6; New South Wales, Act No. 32 of 1902, ss. 10,11 ; Victoria, 18 & 19 Vict. c. 55, sched. ss. 28, 29; Queensland, Act 31 Vict. No. 38, 85. 3, 12; South Australia, Act No. 2 of 1855-6, 88. 2, 8; Western Australia, 53 & 54 Vict. c. 26, sched. ss. 3, 4; Tasmania, 18 Vict. No. 17, #8. 4, 5; New Zealand, Consolidated Statutes, 1908, No. 101, s. 14; Union of South Africa, 9 Edw. VIL ec. 9, 88. 20, 22, As to prorogation, cf. Constitution of New Zealand, pp. 191, 192.

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