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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1000 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART Iv Act can indeed be altered by the Federal Parliament, but only with the assent of the people of the Commonwealth, and the provisions require that any proposed law for the alteration of the Commonwealth must be passed by an absolute majority of each House of Parliament and must be submitted in each state to the electors not less than two nor more than six months after its passage through both Houses. If in a majority of states a majority of electors voting approved the proposed law, and if a majority of all the electors voting also approved the proposed law, it would then be presented to the Governor-General for the royal assent. Some laws, however, require still further approval than this. No alteration diminishing the proportionate representation of any state in either House of Parliament, or the minimum number of representatives of a state in the House of Repre- sentatives, nor any clause diminishing or altering the limits of a state, or in any manner affecting the provisions of the Constitution in relation to the state, shall be allowed, unless the majority of the electors in the state voting under the Act approve the proposed law. In the case of a deadlock between the two Houses on a proposed constitutional alteration, if the House! which has passed the Bill passes it again after an interval of three months in the same or the next session, and the other House again rejects it, the Governor-General may submit the law to the voters in the states, when the procedure is the same as if the law had been passed bv both Houses with the requisite majority. The ordinary procedure has already been adopted in one case in 1907,2 when by an Act other provision was made for the date of election of senators ; on that occasion the requi- site majorities were obtained in every state without difficulty. But to carry any substantial alteration in this elaborate procedure would probably be a matter of considerable That either House can force a referendum with the Government's consent is noteworthy. Deadlock provisions in ordinary legislation give the power only to the Lower House. * Commonwealth Act No. 1 of 1907.

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