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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994 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [part 1V persons naturalized in any part of the Union shall be deemed to be naturalized in the whole of the Union. This provision is of obvious convenience and of value ; it has no parallel in the North America Act or in the Commonwealth Constitution Act, but in both these cases subsequent legislation, under the power to legislate for naturalization given to the Dominion! and the Commonwealth 2 by the Constitution, has brought about a similar state of affairs, and naturalization is granted under Acts of the Commonwealth and the Dominion which make it apply to the whole Dominion and Common- wealth respectively. The effect of such naturalization was, however, in the case of the Union under the original draft Constitution only extended in the case of Europeans, and the somewhat anomalous and unsatisfactory position still remained that natives naturalized in any of the provinces would continue only to be British subjects in the provinces in question. This result was unfortunate and unsymmetrical, and indeed it was in reality a contravention of the whole spirit of the Union. The creation of a Union was intended to substitute for four separate Colonies a single Colony, and to perpetuate separation of the provinces by this provision was contrary to the whole principle of the Union itself. It is difficult to see what practical advantage could have been gained from a situation which was legally anomalous? and fortunately the clause was amended at the Bloemfontein Conference by the omission of the word ‘ European ’, and a uniform naturalization law was passed by the Union Parliament in 1910 by Act No. 4. § 9. ENTRANCE OF NEW PROVINCES AND TERRITORIES Provision 4 is made upon addresses from the Houses of the Union Parliament for the future entry into the Union of the territories administered by the British South Africa * British North America Act, 1867. s. 91 (25). See now Revised Statutes. £906, c. 77. * Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 1900, Const. & 51 (xix). See Naturalization Act, 1903. * Cf. also The Government of South Africa, i. 157 seq. ' 5, 150. Parliament may also (s. 149) at the request of any Provincial

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