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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1020 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART v objections even in Crown Colonies that they are hardly now in use. It is simpler to disallow and re-enact with changes. When Acts are not disallowed it used to be the practice of the Crown to issue an Order in Council in the case of the responsible-government Colonies leaving the Acts to their operation ; this is no longer done, all that is done being bo intimate by dispatch that the King will not be advised to exercise his power of disallowance with respect to a measure. It is a moot point whether this is sufficient to debar His Majesty from exercising the power, should he later on desire to do so. At any rate, the question can hardly arise, as the Crown would scarcely propose nowadays to act in this manner. But of course the form is needless, and the course may be adopted of leaving Acts alone, this in some cases indicating that the Crown does not wish to express even formal approval of the Act in question! § 3. Tur SuBjEcTs oF CONTROL It is possible from the list of subjects for reservation, and from the returns which have been made to Parliament of Bills which have for one reason or another failed to receive the royal assent, to make out a fairly complete list of subjects in which the Imperial control has been exercised even in recent years. It is hardly possible to classify them in any very scientific manner ; they may perhaps for our purposes be classified into (1) matters affecting the internal affairs of the Dominion; (2) native affairs ; (3) the immigration of coloured races; (4) treaty relations and foreign affairs ; (6) trade and currency ; (6) merchant shipping ; (7) copy- right ; (8) divorce and status : (9) military and naval defence. To these the letters patent and instructions add the grant of land or moneys to the Governor, matters affecting the prerogative, and questions affecting the interests of British subjects not resident in the Dominions, as to which a few words will be sufficient. The subject of honours, though * Thus the Newfoundland Acts of 1895, cc. 7, 11, and 12; Natal Act No. 27 of 1895; and Western Australia, No. 54 of 1899, were so treated : Parl. Pap., H. C. 184, 1906, p. 4.

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