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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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Year of publication:: 1912

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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CHAP. VI] THE LOWER HOUSES rh 0 5. ELECTORAL MATTERS It is not necessary to give details relating to electoral, registration, and similar matters. They are regulated in all cases by local legislation, and the provisions, while agreeing in substance, differ very widely in detail, and vary from time to time.! The issue of writs for a general election rests with the Governor, in other cases with the President or Speaker of the House concerned. Voting by ballot is a general principle, but it is qualified to the extent that postal voting has been introduced and to some extent maintained in some of the Colonies. In the case of Queensland the postal vote caused a great deal of difficulty, and was one of the reasons for the political crisis of 1907. It was then held that the postal vote gave undue facilities for bringing pressure to bear upon voters, and that its abolition was desirable, and it was much modified in Act of 1908 No. 5, being replaced by an absent vote. It has also been proposed to abolish the postal vote in Victoria, but it is still retained for both Houses in Act No. 2288, 8. 88, and it exists in the Commonwealth, Tasmania, and Western Australia, and as an absent vote in South Australia, and such a vote is proposed for New South Wales. Elaborate provision exists in all the Dominions and States with regard to electoral corruption. In all cases in Canada and Newfoundland the Courts decide election petitions, not the Parliaments, and it has been held that in cases of jurisdiction in electoral matters? the Privy Council will ! The facts are set out as they stood in 1906 in Parl. Pap., Cd. 3919. See since then the Electoral Code, 1908 (No. 971), of South Australia, the Victoria Act No. 2288, the Electoral Act, 1907 (No. 27), of Western Australia, the Electoral Acts, 1906 (No. 41) and 1910 (No. 18), of New South Wales, the Queensland Acts (5 Edw. VIL No. 1 and 8 Edw. VIL No. 5), Tasmania Act (7 Edw. VII. No. 6), the Ontario Act 1908, c. 3, the Alberta Act 1909, c. 3, the Saskatchewan Act 1908, c. 2, and the Western Australia Act No. 44 of 1911, Théberge v. Laudry, 2 App. Cas. 102, as explained in Cushing v. Dupuy, 5 App. Cas. 409, at p. 419. Followed by the Commonwealth High Court in Holmes v. Angwin, (1906) 4 C. L. R. 297; and cf. Parkin v. James, 2 C. L. R. 815, at p. 333. See also Valin v. Langlois, 5 App. Cas. 115; Kennedy v. Purcell, 14 S. C. R. 488 : 59 L. 'T. 279.

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