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

812 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [part 1V that no steps were taken to deal with them effectively until 1910, when in conjunction with the Navigation Bill a Bill to provide for the Commonwealth control was introduced, but held over until the Navigation Bill could be passed in 1911. In the case of quarantine the Commonwealth legislated in 1908 in a somewhat unusual manner, for the Act does not contemplate the total cesser of quarantine measures by the state authorities, but rather a scheme for co-operation, and the Act takes wider power than ever taken under the head of a quarantine Act for the stamping out of diseases of animals, plants, and persons, whenever introduced into or breaking out in the state or Commonwealth ; it transpired while the Bill was passing through Parliament that the Act was in some of these regards wlira vires, but the matter is a doubtful one, and the advantage of Commonwealth control is obvious and will probably render the states indis- posed to take steps against the Act. It is still open to the states to take action against plant diseases by excluding plants from other states, and Tasmania, Western and South Australia have done so. § 4. THE LEGISLATIVE POWER OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE STATES The division of legislative power between the Common- wealth and the state is affected by ss. 106 and 107 of the Constitution, which continue the powers of the states save as altered in the Act, and by the following sections of the Act defining the legislative power of the Commonwealth. To these fall to be added the powers of the Parliament as to electoral matters, the franchise and so forth, the financial powers considered below, the power as to the judicature, and the powers as to the appointment of federal officers given by s. 67. It should be noted also that by s. 5 of the Constitu- tion Act, the laws of the Commonwealth have an extra- territorial effect, being in force in all British ships, the King’s ships of war excepted, whose first port of clearance and port of destination are in the Commonwealth. 4 Cf. Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Bill, pp. 142, 160; Com.

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