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

cuar. mi] THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA 975 not lessen the right of the provinces to legislate within the limits of their authority so as to affect Asiatics. The effect of s. 147 is indeed very obscure as regards the point. Pre- sumably in these cases the same principle would be adopted by the Union Government as by the Dominion Government, which is ever ready to consider Imperial interests in deciding as to the disallowance or otherwise of provincial legislation, as in the case of the British Columbia anti-Japanese Acts. The matter is, however, one of great importance, as it is perfectly clear that a Governor-General could only refuse assent in Council, and, as we have seen, a Council must include ministers, so that in the event of a dispute the Governor- General could only legally refuse assent by replacing ministers by his own nominees, if he could find any prepared to aid him in his effort. The nearest parallel to the arrangements as to the executive and legislative powers of the provinces is to be found in the provinces of New Zealand, created under the Act of 18521 granting a representative Constitution to New Zealand. In that case the General Assembly of New Zealand had full legislative power on all subjects, and in all its enactments could override provincial enactments. The provinces, however, had, subject to this paramount power of the General Assembly, authority to legislate on all matters of provincial interest, excluding, however, legislation as regards duties of customs; the establishment of Courts of judicature, civil or criminal, except Courts for trial and punishment of offences made punishable in a summary way by the law of New Zealand ; the regulation of currency, paper or money; the regulation of weights and measures; the regulation of the post office ; legislation as to bankruptcy or insolvency; the erection and maintenance of beacons and lighthouses ; the imposition of shipping dues; the regulation of marriages ; legislation affecting Crown lands or lands to which the title of the aborigines had never been extinguished ; laws inflicting disabilities or restrictions on persons of the native races to which persons of European t 15 & 16 Vict. ¢. 72, ss, 2-31. *g 53. 3 ss. 18, 19.

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