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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988 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART IV commissioners shall be fixed by Parliament and shall not be reduced during their terms of office. The railways, ports, and harbours shall be administered on business principles,! but due regard shall be paid to the agricultural and industrial development of the Union and promotion by means of cheap transport of the settlement of an agricultural and industrial population in the inland portions of all the provinces of the Union. So far as may be the total earnings shall only be sufficient to meet the necessary outlays for working, maintenance, betterment, depreciation, and the payment of interest due on the capital, not being capital contributed out of railway or harbour revenue and not including any sums payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, in accordance with the pro- visions of ss. 130 and 131 of the Act, which deal with the case of loss on lines not approved by the Board and on the provision of unremunerative facilities. The amount of interest due on such capital invested shall be paid from the Railway and Harbour Fund into the Consolidated Revenue Fund. Effect is to be given to this section as soon as prac- ticable (and not later than four years) after the establishment of the Union. In that period, if the general revenues are insufficient and there is an excess on railway and harbour earnings, Parliament may appropriate the excess for general purposes. The Board may establish a fund out of railway and harbour revenue to be used for maintaining uniformity of rates despite fluctuations of trade. The Board shall become possessed of all balances to the credit of any Railway or Harbour Fund in the Colonies existing at the Union.2 Every proposal for railway, port, or harbour construction must be considered by the Board before submission to Parlia- ! This rule is intended to guard against the bringing of political pressure bo bear on the commissioners for the construction and working of non- economic railways and in questions affecting discipline, both matters which have caused great trouble in the Australian states. Cf. Parl. Pap., Cd. 3564, pp. 101 seq. * Ct. The Government of South Africa, ii. 138-47.

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