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

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392 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART 1v be employed on such occasions without direct statutory authority. The Government, however, maintained that there would be no invasion of Parliamentary privilege ; they merely afforded a really effective means of testing the accusations made in Parliament by the Opposition; and they persisted in the course proposed, with the result that the commissioners rebutted the charges, but the Opposition refrained from pressing them by giving evidence.! It may be added that the power to legislate as to the judicial power of the Commonwealth does not enable the Parliament to confer rights on the High Court which are not valid exercises of purely judicial functions. Thus the proposal to convert the High Court into a Criminal Court of Appeal, with all the powers exercised by the English Criminal Appeal Court, although ably defended in the Senate by its promoter, the late Senator Neild, never got beyond that House, in view of the grave constitutional questions its enactment would have raised 2 § 7. FINANCE AND TRADE The revenues of the Commonwealth are constituted into a consolidated fund charged with the expenses of collection and then with the Commonwealth expenditure. No appro- priation can be drawn from the Treasury except under a law, but the Governor-General in Council was authorized to draw from it until a month after the first meeting of Parliament moneys to defray the cost of administration and the expenses of an election. Provision was also made for the transfer of officers to the Commonwealth with the transferred depart- ment, and for the payment to them on retirement of pensions if the service had been in the state to the end, but requiring the state to pay a proportion of the salaries awarded. State officers not retained in the service were to receive the same pension as if they had been retired on abolition of office, the payment to be defrayed by the state. Any officer transferred from a state service to a Commonwealth service should receive + Parliamentary Debates, 1910-1, pp. 1502-51. Cf. Turner, Australian Commonwealth, p. 240.

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