Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

Bibliographic data

Multivolume work

Identifikator:: 1896933912

Document type:: Multivolume work

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Volume

Identifikator:: 1896935052

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

Document type:: Volume

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Multivolume work

Structure type:: Chapter

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

Collection:: Economics Books

smAP. iI] THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA 967 3 4. Tue GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCES The provisions of the Act?! for the administration of the provinces are the most original in the whole Constitution, and are not unworthy of close consideration. The provinces are not in any way to be set up as rivals to the Union, and therefore the system of government must not be a replica, in however faint a form, of the central government : the party system is to be continued in the ordinary central government, but it is not to be allowed to remain in force in the provinces. Therefore the legislature of the provinces is in no sense to be a Parliament and the executive is not to be an Executive Council, but an Executive Committee. The head of the Administration is to be an Administrator, who will be appointed by the Governor-General in Council, preferably from among residents of the province, and will hold office for five years, before which period he can only be removed by the Governor-General in Council for cause assigned, which shall be communicated to Parliament within a week after the removal if Parliament be sitting, and if not, within a week after the commencement of the next session. The Administrator will receive a salary fixed and paid by Parliament, and such salary cannot be diminished during his tenure of office. These provisions are borrowed from the practice of the Canadian Provinces, but in other respects the Administrator has no such important position as the Lieu- tenant-Governors of Canada, who have to govern with the help of Executive Councils commanding the assent of Parlia- ments.2 The Administrator is to be assisted in carrying on the Executive Government by a Committee of four (three to five in the original draft) members, who are to be elected by the Provincial Council at its first meeting after each general election, according to the principle of proportional represen- tation with the single transferable vote. The members are to receive salaries fixed by the Council, and will hold office antil the appointment of their successors by the Council ‘ gs. 68, 60, 78-84. The salaries of the Administrators are £2,500 in the Cape and Transvaal, £2,000 in the others. ® See e.g Canada Sessional Papers, 1900, No. 174,

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

Multivolume work

Volume

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Volume

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation