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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1012 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PARTY because in the Cape the existence of the suffrage for natives rendered such a clause needless, while in the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony the provision for the reservation of such Bills was put in the letters patent, and there was also a clause in that instrument requiring the reservation of any Bill for the importation of indentured labour, and for the reservation of all Bills affecting the provisions of the letters patent,! a restriction which was not found necessary in the Cape or Natal. The insertion of the provisions in the letters patent of course made an essential difference in the result of an inadvertent assent : under the Colonial Laws Validity Act the assent, if the instructions are the only instrument con- cerned, is valid, but if the instruction to reserve is embodied in the instrument of government an assent is a mere nullity. The terms of the instructions in the case of Newfoundland and of New South Wales, with which the rules in the case of the other states are identical, are as follows, those for New- foundland dating from 1876,2 and being in the antique style, while the omissions of military and naval matters and duties from the state form is because these are matters for Common- wealth legislation, and are not needed especially in a state instrument. With these the Natal instructions of 1893 may be compared :— Newfoundland XVII. Our said Governor is not to assent in Our name to any Bill of any of the classes hereinafter specified, that is to say — 1. Any Bill for the divorce of persons joined together in Holy Matrimony. 2. Any Bill whereby any grant of land or money or other donation or gratuity may be made to himself. 3. Any Bill whereby any paper or other currency may be made a legal tender, except the coin of the realm or other rold or silver coin. ! Transvaal Letters Patent, December 6, 1906, s. 49; Orange River Colony Letters Patent, June 5, 1907, s. 51. ' The older type, those of May 4, 1855, contain very many more restric- tions, and so in the older Canadian instructions printed in Canada Sess. Pap., 1906, No, 18.

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