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:: Chapter VIII. The constitutional relations of the houses

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614 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [rArT iit which passes through its various stages, and finally receives the royal assent ; and then, but not before, the Treasury are empowered to direct an issue out of the Consolidated Fund to meet the payments authorized by votes in supply of the House of Commons. This general grant of ways and means is made available, so far as it will go, to meet votes in supply passed both before and after it. 6. The constitutional effect of these regulations is that until the House of Lords and the Crown have assented to the grant of ways and means, the appropriation of the public money directed by votes in supply of the House of Commons is inoperative. These general grants of ways and means on account during the session in anticipation of the specific appropriations embodied in the Appropriation Act passed at the close of the session, may be viewed as the form in which Parliament considers it most convenient to convey their sanction to an ad interim issue of public money upon the appropriation directed by the Commons alone, relying upon their final confirmation being obtained at the close of the session. For example, on the 4th and 15th March 1878, votes amounting to more than £12,100,000 were granted in supply for the army and navy services of 1878-9. On the 19th March a vote of £12,000,000 in ways and means was taken towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty for 1878-9, and this vote was embodied in a Ways and Means Bill which received the royal assent on 28th March. 7. These ways and means have since been used not only for military and naval services, but to meet such votes as have been granted in supply for civil services and collection of the revenue since the passing of the ways and means resolution on 19th March. 8. I have thus, I think, sufficiently explained that, accord- ing to the practice followed in this country, a supply for some branch of the public service must have been granted to the Queen, and ways and means towards making good that supply must have been provided by an Act, before Her Majesty can authorize the Treasury to issue any money ; but that so soon as ways and means have been provided for any service, the Treasury may draw upon these ways and means so long as they last, in order to defray the expense of any votes comprised in the resolutions adopted in supply (whether before or after the date of the resolution in ways and means), provided always that such resolutions in supply have been passed in the same session of Parliament. Finally,

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