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:: Chapter VIII. The constitutional relations of the houses

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAP. vir] RELATIONS OF THE HOUSES 595 be removed save in the cases specified in the dispatch of 1845. The effect on the Council of the entry into the Union Is somewhat curious, The power of the Crown to add to the number of councillors must be deemed to be gone, and therefore the number cannot exceed twenty-one, but the tenure during pleasure stil] prevails! Of course it could be altered by Provincial Act under Ss. 92 (1) of the British North, America Act, 1867, but the Legislature has only provided that the appointment of members shall be vested in the Lieutenant-Governor, who shall make such appointments in the King’s name by instrument under the Great Seal of the Province, a provision made in 1872, and a further provision in the Revised Statutes, 1900, c. 2, lays down that any member of the Legislative Council who shall be absent from hig place therein for two consecutive sessions shall vacate his Post, these clauses being in effect re-enact. ments suited to the altered circumstances of the provisions in the royal commission and instructions before federation. The question of the power of the Lieutenant-Governor with regard to the Legislative Council came to a head in 1879, when the Council rejected g measure passed by the Assembly for the abolition of the Upper House, and the Assembly subsequently passed an address to the Queen praying that the Imperial Parliament, might pass an Act empowering the Lieutenant-Governor to increase the number of Legislative Councillors so that the measure in question might be passed. The Secretary of State for the Colonies, in refusing the prayer of the address, called special attention to the Power of the Provincial Legislature under the British North, America Act to amend the constitution of the Province, and the circumstances ag placed before him did not lead to the conclusion that an alteration of the Constitu- tion had been proved to be necessary. Similarly, in a later dispatch of December 3, 1894, Lord Ripon laid it down that Her Majesty’s Government, considered that as the * In New Brunswick the matter was regulated in 1868 by Act (p. 592, 0, 1), but not, in Nova Scotia until 1872 (c. 13), when the appointment was given to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. ny 0)

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