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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VIII. The constitutional relations of the houses

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616 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [parr iil the legislative machinery of the state to a temporary stand- still on no less than four different occasions. In reporting further on August 5, 1878 the Governor mentioned that in 1874 Mr. Francis’s Ministry introduced a Bill to provide that if a measure were passed by the Legislative Assembly in two consecutive ordinary sessions, and shall fail to pass through the next Legislative Council, the Governor might prorogue Parliament, and within sixty and after not less than thirty days convene a meeting of both Houses to deal with the measure, and such measure could then be passed with or without amendments by an absolute majority of the members of both Houses. It had been the original intention of his ministers to propose the substitution in Victoria of a nominee Council on the plan which had worked well in New South Wales, New Zealand, and Queensland, but this was not popular in the country and had been abandoned. The Bill which was introduced by the Government pro- posed, in the case of money and tax Bills, that if a money Bill or tax Bill was not passed within a month by the Council it should be deemed to be passed, and that the fifty-sixth section of the Constitution should be amended by omitting the power there given to the Legislative Council to reject a money Bill. A definition was proposed of Bills to which the fifty-sixth section should relate, to include every Annual Appropriation Bill and every Ways and Means Bill, and any Bill of which the primary object should be the appro- priating of any part of the revenue of Victoria or the imposing of any duty, rate, tax, rent, return, or impost. Neverthe- less, the Legislative Council could, within the month, make suggestions which the Assembly could accept if it desired. In the case of all other Bills which should be passed by the Assembly in two consecutive annual sessions, and rejected in each by the Legislative Council, it should become law, unless indeed the Bill should be rejected at a general poll of the electors for the Assembly. No Bills should be sub- * Parl. Pap., C. 2217, p. 4; Rusdon, Australia, iii. 386 seq. The Bill did not obtain an absolute majority in the Assembly. Cf. 1&2 Geo. V.c. 13.5. 1.

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