Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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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:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter II. The commonwealth of Australia

Collection:: Economics Books

782 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [ParT IV was that it had no executive or judicial power, though the creation of an Australian Court of Appeal had been in the air since 1861, in great measure in consequence of the trouble and expense of carrying appeals home from such distant Colonies. Moreover, membership was strictly optional, and only Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, and Western Australia sent members, as a rule, to its meetings, while Fiji dropped out after the first meeting, and New South Wales and New Zealand held aloof. Moreover, the jealousy of the powers of the Council, which was merely composed of representatives nominated by the Legislature, who were all ministers up to 1895, when an Order in Council under the Act in 1894 enlarged its numbers, prevented it having any authority to raise a revenue or expend money. It met in 1886 and passed laws regarding the enforcement of j udgements beyond the limits of each state ; in 1888 it regulated the pearl-shell and béche-de-mer fisheries in Australian waters beyond the berritorial limits of Queensland. In 1889 it passed a similar Act for Western Australia; on this occasion only Southern Australia being present under the authority of the temporary Act passed by its Parliament in December 1888: in 1891 its sole activity consisted in an Act for the recognition of orders in lunacy by the Supreme Courts of one state in the Courts of the others. On this occasion alone Western Australia failed to attend. In 1893 it passed an Act to regulate the garrison of King George’s Sound and Thursday Council sat, and he could reserve Bills, and must reserve all Bills of classes 1-3, if not previously approved by the Crown, The laws of the Council were to override Colonial laws, and the Council could make representations to the Crown on matters of general interest or the relations of the Colonies with the possessions of foreign powers. It had to meet once in two years at least, being summoned by the Governor of the Colony in which it had decided to hold its next session ; a special session could be held on a requisition from the Governors of three Colonies. Questions were decided by individual votes, the President having also a casting vote (ss. 10, 11). There were passed also an Interpretation Act (49 Vict. No. 1) and an Act to facilitate the proof of Acts of Parliament, signatures of officers, Ye. (49 Viet. No. 2); see Quick and Garran, op. cit., p. 377. ' Mr. Holder tried to rejoin in 1892, but the Upper House refused to accept the Bill,

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