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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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CHAP. VI] THE LOWER HOUSES 491 in the division in which he demands to be registered. Only white persons are given the franchise, and soldiers on full pay from the Imperial Parliament are disqualified, as also those who have received relief from public funds otherwise than by way of repatriation under the terms of peace of May 31, 1902, or in a public or semi-public hospital. There is no disqualification on the ground of lunacy, but there is one on the ground of conviction, without the option of a fine, for crime, save for treason previous to June 1, 1902. In the old Legislative Assemblies there were sixty-nine and thirty-five (after 1908, thirty-nine) members respectively, each for one division. In the Union of South Africa, unless and until Parliament makes other provision, the qualifications for the Lower House, which consists of fifty-one members for the Cape Province, seventeen for Natal, thirty-six for the Transvaal, and seventeen for the Orange Free State Province, each for one division, will under s. 35 of the Constitution be the same as those existing in the provinces at the time of the Union being constituted, provided always that no member of His Majesty’s Regular Forces on full pay shall be entitled to be registered as a voter. The provisions of the laws in force in the Colonies at the establishment of Union with regard to electoral matters apply to such elections, but all polls must be taken on one and the same day, thus obviating to any large extent plural voting. No law which affects the franchise shall dis- qualify any person in the Province of the Cape of Good Hope, who under the laws existing in the Colony at the time of the establishment of the Union is or may become capable of being registered as a voter, from being so registered in the province by reason of his race or colour only, unless the Bill be passed by both Houses of Parliament sitting together, and at the third reading be agreed to by not less than two-thirds of the total numbers of members of both Houses. Even in such a case no person who at the passing of the law is registered as a voter in any province shall be removed from the register by reason only of any disqualification based on race or colour. For the Provincial Councils the franchise is the same as for the Union Assembly.

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