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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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

Collection:: Economics Books

cusp. mi] THE UNTON OF SOUTH AFRICA 989 ment, and the Board must report and advise whether thework should or should not be carried out. If the work is carried out despite the views of the Board, and the Board consider that the revenue from the work will not meet the costs of working, maintenance, and interest of the capital invested, it shall submit an estimate of the annual loss, which, when approved by the Comptroller and Auditor-General, will be made good from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, provided that if in any year the actual loss is less than the estimate, only so much will be made good. In calculating the loss, regard is to be had to the value of contributions of traffic to other parts of the system. If also the Board is required by the Governor-General in Council or by Parliament to provide gratuitous or unremunerative services, the amount shall be made good from the Consolidated Revenue Fund. Provision is also made for the appointment 6f a Controller and Auditor-General by the Governor-General in Council.! He shall hold office during good behaviour, and can only be dismissed by the Governor-General in Council on an address from both Houses of Parliament, though when Parliament is not sitting the same authority may suspend him on the ground of incompetence or misbehaviour, and must confirm the suspension unless an address is presented from the two Houses of Parliament in the next session praying for his restoration to office. Pending the decision of Parliament his duties were appointed by the Governor-General in Council, and are now regulated by the Audit Act, 1911. The diminution of prosperity to Pietermaritzburg and Bloemfontein from their ceasing to be the seats of Govern- ment in their respective Colonies is to be made good in part by a grant from the Consolidated Revenue, for a period not oxceeding twenty-five years, of the sum of 2 per cent. per annum on the municipal debts as existing on January 31. The provision for an Auditor is not usual in Colonial Constitutions, though, of course, Colonial Acts regularly provide for the post and its powers, and the Acts are based on the same principles as the Union Act, 5. 132. See Canada Revised Statutes, 1906, c. 24; Commonwealth 4udit Aets. 1901. 1906, and 1909 ; The Government of South Africa, i. 320.

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