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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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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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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492 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART 1Tt § 2. THE MEMBERS The qualifications for members of the Lower Houses in the Dominions follow generaliy the qualifications for the electorate, but certain persons qualified to vote are excluded on public grounds from the right of membership. The disqualifications of members of the Houses of Parlia- ment, and the conditions on which they shall vacate their seats, are much the same for the Lower Houses as for the Upper Houses. (a) North America. In the Dominion of Canada, members of the provincial legislatures ! cannot be members of the House of Commons, hor can members of the Senate be members of the House of Commons. Officers under the Crown, with certain exceptions specified in chapter 10 of the Revised Statutes, cannot be members, but ministers are qualified for election. Government contractors, except shareholders in companies (other than companies which contract for public works) and persons on whom contracts devolve by operation of law for a year after the devolution, lenders of money to Govern- ment, and militiamen, are also excluded from membership. In the Provinces of Canada the rules are in the main similar. Office-holders, whether Dominion or provincial, are ineligible to sit, and persons interested in contracts under the Crown are excluded, with the exception of shareholders in companies other than companies which undertake public works. In Prince Edward Island clergymen are not eligible. No member of the Legislative Assembly or Legislative Council of other provinces or of the House of Commons or Senate of Canada is eligible, and seats are vacated on the occurrence of similar conditions. Moreover, in every case a member of Parliament may resign his seat, usually being given the option of declaring his wish in his place in the Assembly or by writing under his hand addressed to the Speaker, or if the House is not in session and there is no Speaker, or the member be the Speaker himself, by * There is no prohibition for a Senator to be a Legislative Councillor of Quebec, and cases have occurred (Pope, Sir John Macdonald, ii. 7). Bub otherwise in Nova Scotia.

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