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

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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CHAP. VII] THE UPPER HOUSES 563 that the Legislative Council, not having exercised their undoubted power to reject the Bill altogether, do not desire to cause the serious injury to the public service and to the welfare of the Colony which would inevitably result from a refusal to sanction the necessary expenditure for carrying on the government of the Colony, and in the confident hope that under the circumstances the Legislative Council will not insist on their amendments.’ 9. On the same day the Legislative Council again returned the Bill to the Legislative Assembly with the following message — ‘ The Legislative Council having had under consideration the message of the Legislative Assembly of this day’s date, relative to the amendments made by the Legislative Council in “the Appropriation Bill of 1885-6, No. 2,” beg now to intimate that they 4nsist on their amendments in the said Bill :— ‘ Because the Council neither arrogate to themselves the position of being a reflex of the House of Lords, nor recog- nize the Legislative Assembly as holding the same relative position to the House of Commons. ‘The Joint Standing Orders only apply to matters of form connected with the internal management of the two Houses, and do not affect constitutional questions. " Because it does not appear that occasion has arisen to require that the House of Lords should exercise its powers of amending a Bill for appropriating the public revenue, and, therefore, the present case is not analogous ; the right is admitted though it may not have been exercised. "Because the case of the Legislature of New Zealand is dissimilar to that now under consideration, inasmuch as the Constitution Act of New Zealand differs materially from that of Queensland, and the question submitted did not arise under the Constitution Act, but on the interpre- tation of a Parliamentary Privileges Act. If no instance can be found in the history of constitutional government in which a nominated council has attempted to amend an Appropriation Bill, it is because no similar case has ever arisen. ‘ Because in the amendment of all Bills “ The Constitution Act of 1867” confers on the Legislative Council powers co-ordinate with those of the Legislative Assembly, and the annexing of any clause to a Bill of Supply, the matter of which is foreign to and different from the matter of said Bill of Supply, is unparliamentary and tends to the destruc- 002

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