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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966 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART IV instructions! In any case the power will doubtless be sparingly used, and only on the gravest Imperial grounds. [t may be remembered that only one Commonwealth Bill has been reserved since the inauguration of the Common- wealth ; that was the British Preference Bill of 1906, which purported to give a preference to British goods imported in British vessels manned exclusively by white labour, which was reserved on the advice of ministers as it was deemed to be counter to treaty obligations, and which was by the consent of the Commonwealth Government allowed to lapse. The restriction of the period of disallowance to one year is borrowed from the Australian precedent, which had its origin in the Federal Council of Australasia Act, 1885, and is in accord with the practice in the Canadian Provinces. It cannot be said to be altogether convenient, since if the Act was one which contained objectionable matter among satisfactory provisions the Imperial Government would be put in the difficult position of either disallowing a measure of value or of allowing it to stand good without amendment, whereas if two years were allowed the Act might be allowed to stand on the understanding that it should be amended in the next session of Parliament. This inconvenience has been felt by the Dominion Government in the case of Provincial Acts, and the only alternative procedure, that of allowing the Act to stand on the faith of a promise of amend- ment, is not a convenient one. Ministers in the Dominions cannot often control the Parliaments, and a failure to carry legislation is apt to give rise to charges, tacit or explicit, of bad faith, and to lead to friction. Fortunately the proba- bility of legislation seriously defective being passed by the Union Parliament is not sufficiently great to render the matter of much concern. Similarly the restriction of the time within which a reserved Bill may be assented to to one year, which is not precedented even in Australia, though it applies to the Canadian Provinces, is open to objection, indeed more serious objection than in the other case * See Sydney Federal Debates, p. 779, when a formal amendment was not accepted, the position being regarded as clear.

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