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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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. VII] THE UPPER HOUSES 521 the Commonwealth by any person whose services are not wholly employed bv the Commonwealth. A seat is vacated on the happening of any of these events, or on bankruptcy, or insolvency, or the acceptance of a fec for services rendered to the Commonwealth or in Parliament to any person or state, and a seat may be resigned. Con- viction for certain offences under the Electoral Act disqualifies for two years from election or sitting. Members of the Lower House cannot of course be senators, and members of State Parliaments cannot be nominated. The qualification of electors is extended, by Act No. 8 of 1902, to adult British subjects of either sex who have lived in Australia for six months continuously. Aboriginal natives of Australia, Asia, Africa, or the Islands of the Pacific except New Zealand, cannot vote at Federal elections unless they have acquired a right to vote at elections for the Lower House of a State Parliament.! Each elector has only one vote. 2. The powers of the Senate with regard to finance are restricted by s. 53 of the Constitution as follows :— Proposed laws appropriating revenue or moneys, or imposing taxation, shall not originate in the Senate, but a proposed law shall not be taken to appropriate revenue or moneys, or to impose taxation, by reason only of its contain- ing provisions for the imposition or appropriation of fines or other pecuniary penalties, or for the demand or payment or appropriation of fees for licences, or fees for services under the proposed law. The Senate may not amend proposed laws imposing taxation, or proposed laws appropriating revenue or moneys for the ordinary annual services of the Government. The Senate may not amend any proposed law so as to increase any proposed charge or burden on the people. The Senate may at any stage return to the House of Representatives any proposed law which the Senate may not amend, requesting, by message, the omission or amendment of any items or provisions therein; and the House of Representatives may, if it thinks fit, make any of such omissions or amendments, with or without modifications. ! That excludes them in Western Australia under the Electoral Act No. 27 of 1907, 8. 18, and in Queensland under the Electoral Act of 1905, 5 Edw. VIL No. 1, 8. 9. This limitation is provided in s. 41 of the consti- tution. See above, pp. 479, 4180,

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