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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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

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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52¢ PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [partir proposed by the first-mentioned House, and, either with or without any amendments subsequently agreed to by both Houses, to the electors in each State qualified to vote for the election of the House of Representatives! When a proposed law is submitted to the electors the vote shall be taken in such manner as the Parliament prescribes. But until the qualification of electors of members of the House of Representatives becomes uniform through- out the Commonwealth, only one half the electors voting for and against the proposed law shall be counted in any state in which adult suffrage prevails. And if in a majority of the states a majority of the electors voting approve the proposed law, and if a majority of all the electors voting also approve the proposed law, it shall be presented to the Governor-General for the King’s assent. No alteration diminishing the proportionate representa- tion of any state in either House of the Parliament, or the minimum number of representatives of a state in the House of Representatives, or increasing, diminishing, or otherwise altering the limits of the state, or in any manner affecting the provisions of the constitution in relation thereto, shall become law, unless the majority of the electors voting in that State approve the proposed law. (b) New South Wales Under the Constitution Act 18 & 19 Vict. c. 54, and Act No. 32 of 1902, the Legislative Council of New South Wales consists of persons unlimited in number3—at present 52 —summoned by the Governor in virtue of clause xi of the Letters Patent by instrument under the Great Seal of the state. The quorum is one-fourth. A Legislative Councillor must be of the full age of twenty- one, and a natural-born subject of His Majesty, or naturalized in Great Britain or in New South Wales, and must not be a public contractor except as member of a company exceeding twenty persons in number 4 or a member of either House of ' At present, under Act No. 8 of 1902, the electorate for the Senate and the House of Representatives is the same ; but if there is any difference, the electorate for the Lower House will be that to which the law is referred. ! This is now the cage, * The minimum of 21 included in the Act of 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 54 sched. 5. 3) does not appear in the Act No. 32 of 1902, s. 16. ¢ Cf. Miles v. Mcllwraith, 8 App. Cas. 120, a decision on a similar provision in tho case of the Queensland Lower House,

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