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

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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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1028 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PARTY same principle is illustrated very neatly by a very recent cage. In 1908! the Parliament of New South Wales passed an Act, which was intended to confirm a previous Act by which it had been intended to lay down certain steps to dispose finally of the question of various land licences granted by the Minister of Lands, who had been found to have been guilty of serious misbehaviour in regard to this question, It was provided in the original measure that the various cases of grants made by him should be carefully considered and disposed of by a committee appointed for that purpose. This was done, but the parties who had acquired land from the Minister, either directly or indirectly, were in some cases aggrieved by the decisions, and took advantage of a flaw in the Act of bringing the matter into the Courts ; the Government then introduced a Bill to confirm the decisions arrived at under the previous Act, and this Bill was assented to by the Governor, though there were addressed to him and the Imperial Government, various petitions alleging that the decision was unfair, and that it affected injuriously holders of land who lived in the United Kingdom. But the petitioners were not granted the relief they craved, and indeed it would be impossible to assent to the doctrine that an Act should properly be interfered with by the Imperial Government because it affected absentees. Thus the Land Tax Acts of the Commonwealth Nos. 21 and 22 of 19102 are deliberately intended to affect such absentee owners, on the very ground which has been adopted in New Zealand as a fixed principle that owners of land in the Dominion who are not resident there, and do not allow the country to benefit by the expenditure there of the revenues it produces, should pay an extra contribu- tion to the state revenues. Of course there are exceptions to the rule; for example, * See Times, June 27 and July 3, 1908, for an attack on the Colonial Act and for the reply of the Agent-General; Acts No. 42 of 1906; 4 of 1908. * A request that the Governor-General be instructed to reserve was declined, and petitions for disallowance rejected. Its validity has been upheld by the High Court in Osborne v. The Commonwealth.

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