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 IV. The immigration of coloured races

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1096 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V the Colonies all Indians who had not already acquired a legal right to be there. Another section of the Act gave an abso- lutely discretionary power to the minister to remove from the Colony any person deemed on reasonable grounds to be dangerous to the peace, order, and good government of the Colony. The Imperial Government assented to the law in a telegram of November 27. 1907.) which runs as follows -— November 27. No. 1. Your dispatch, September 9. The Immigrants Restriction Act, provisions of which are in some respects unusual, has received very careful consideration from His Majesty’s Government. They note with some regret that your Ministers have not been content to rely on an education test for exclusion of undesirables and that practical effect of s. 2, subsection 4, will be to exclude all Asiatics, irrespective of their personal qualifications. In view of the past history of this question and the special circumstances of the Transvaal, they are nevertheless pre- pared to accept this provision, in the hope that exclusion of further Asiatic immigration will result in more favourable treatment of Asiatics now lawfully resident in the Colony. They assume that grant of temporary permits under Asiatic Law Amendment Act, s. 17, will not be discontinued, and they desire from your Ministers specific assurance that there is no intention of refusing access as visitors to ruling chiefs, Indians of distinguished position, or high officials of Asiatic descent. By s. 6, subsection b, powers of expulsion of an unusually wide and unrestricted character applicable to foreigners and British subjects alike are conferred on the Executive. His Majesty’s Government believe that no precedent for such powers exists in the legislation of any responsibly-governed dominion. Even the Peace Preservation Ordinance, passed under abnormal circumstances after prolonged war, does not confer actual power of expulsion. The exercise of such power by executive without intervention of judicial authori- ties is liable, in cases of subjects of foreign Powers, to give rise to very serious difficulties and, in case of British subjects, is contrary to traditional principles of policy. His Majesty’s Government feel that these considerations have probably not been fully brought home to your Ministers, and hope that they will be prepared on reflection to put some limit on power conferred by this subsection on the Executive. They ask for assurance that legislation will be introduced limiting this power to persons convicted of some offence, or at any rate * Parl. Pap., Cd. 3887, p. 58.

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