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

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cuapr.1] PRINCIPLES OF IMPERIAL CONTROL 1011 establishing a control over rates for cable transit was con- ditional on the passing of legislation by the Imperial Parlia- ment to a similar effect. All these Acts, if not passed sulr modo, would no doubt have required for practical considera- tions to be reserved. The absence of special instructions from the royal instrue- tions was followed in the case of the Commonwealth in 19001, but not in the case of the Union of South Africa, where the subject of reservation is mentioned, and the Governor- General is forbidden to assent to any Bill which he has been specially instructed by the Secretary of State to reserve, and is told to take special care not to assent to any Act the reservation of which is required by the Constitution, and in particular he is directed to reserve any Bill which disqualifies any person who is or may become under the laws existing in the Cape Province at the time of union capable of being registered as a voter from being registered in the Union on grounds of colour or race only. This last sentence carries out a pledge given in Parliament during the discussion of the South Africa Act.? In the case of New Zealand the instructions relative to the reservation of Bills were altered in 1907 to meet the change of status caused by the elevation of the Colony to the rank of a Dominion. In the six states and in Newfoundland there are still instructions, and there were instructions in the South African Colonies until the Union. Those of the Cape were on the same model as those of Natal, but excluded any reference to the reservation of proposed Acts on the ground that they affected differentially non-European persons, * The form is as follows: ‘VII. Our said Governor-General is to take care that all laws assented to by him in Our name, or reserved for the signification of Our pleasure thereon, shall, when transmitted by him, be fairly abstracted in the margins, and be accompanied, in such cases as may seem to him necessary, with such explanatory observations as may be required to exhibit the reasons and occasions for proposing such laws ; and he shall also transmit fair copies of the Journals and Minutes of the proceedings of the Parliament of Our said Commonwealth, which he is to require from the clerks, or other proper officers in that behalf, of the said Parliament.’ ? See p. 963, n. 1. 3 or 2

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