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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986 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION varT 1v and harbours! All other revenues are to be paid into a Consolidated Revenue Fund which is to be appropriated by Parliament for the purposes of the Union. The Governor- General in Council is to appoint as soon as possible a Commission consisting of one representative of each province, with an Imperial officer (Sir G. Murray) presiding, to inquire into the financial relations which should exist between the Union and the provinces. Until that inquiry is completed and until Parliament has taken action on it, there shall be paid annually from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Administrator of each province an amount equal to the sum provided for education other than higher education, in respect of the financial year 1908-9 in the estimates of the Colony and voted in 1908 by the Parliament, and such further sums as the Governor-General in Council may consider necessary for the due performance of the services and duties assigned to the provinces. During this period the Executive Committees are to submit annual estimates of expenditure to the Governor-General in Council, and no expenditure shall be incurred by any Executive Committee without the approval of the estimates by the Governor- (Feneral in Council. Under the original draft the annual cost of raising the revenue was to form the first charge, and the annual interest of the public debts and any sinking funds were to form the second charge on the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which after defraying these charges could be appropriated by Parlia- ment.? The Bloemfontein Conference gives the preference to debt charges, and apparently the cost of collection will ! The Board is partly a continuation and extension of the Railway Board of the Central South African Railways, partly an imitation of the commissioners who manage railways in the Australian states (The Government of South Africa, ii. 131-5). But characteristically full ministerial responsibility exists here. Ports were governmentally controlled in the Cape and Natal, ibid., i. 198, 199. * No special appropriation is required in the case of debt charges, nor, it may be noted, for the Governor-General’s salary (s. 10). The rule is the same in the Constitutions of the self-governing Colonies generally. Thus the salary of the Governor-General cannot be discussed annually in Parliament.

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