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-

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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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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over dominion administration and legislation // Chapter I. The principles of imperial control

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1010 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PARTY As between the power of reservation by the Governor or disallowance by the Imperial Government there is not very much to be said : it was argued by Mr. Blake in his famous memorandum of 1876, that the proper plan was for the legisla- tion to be completed on the advice of the Ministry of Canada, and then the power to disallow adopted where thought essential, without fettering the discretion of the Governor- General to assent to Bills, and so he asked very earnestly for the deletion from the royal instructions of the clauses relating to reservation which had hitherto been inserted in the royal instructions to Canada, and which required the reservation of Bills dealing with divorce, the grant of land or money to the Governor-General, paper or other non-sterling currency, differential duties, or imposing pro- visions inconsistent with treaties, or interfering with the discipline of the Imperial naval and military forces, ox of an extraordinary nature and importance whereby the prerogative or the rights of persons not residing in the Dominion, or the trade and shipping of the United Kingdom and its dependencies, might be prejudiced, and any Bill previously disallowed or reserved and not assented to, unless the Bill were urgent, when it could be assented to if not repugnant to the law of England and not contrary to treaty, or unless it contained a suspending clause. In deference to the wishes and arguments of Mr. Blake, the instructions were remodelled to omit any mention of the reservation of classes of Bills, but it was clearly intimated that reservation was not being given up but merely that reservation as a fixed rule was abandoned, and a case of its use occurred in 1886. Since that date various Canadian laws have failed to pass into effect for various causes, but the form is usually that the law is not to come into effect until the Governor-General issues a proclamation, and no procla- mation is permitted to be issued, as for instance is the case with the Copyright Act passed in 1889, and the fifteenth part of the Merchant Shipping Act (Rev. Stat., 19086, c. 113) of Canada relating to load-lines; or as in 1910, an Act (c. 57) ! Canada Sess, Payp., 1877, No. 13.

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