Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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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-

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Identifikator:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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1268 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V of co-operation! Such staff branches have been organized in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and are in direct communication with the Imperial General Staff. Advice in all matters of the military or naval preparations of the Dominions can be obtained from the Overseas Defence Committee or the more august Committee of Imperial Defence. The former, now affiliated to the latter, is much the older body, and it performs the important duty of advising on all matters of detail submitted to it, and of pre- paring questions for the consideration of the Committee of Imperial Defence. That body 2 which owes its consti- bution to the interest taken by Mr. Balfour in Imperial defence, is remarkable in being presided over by the Prime Minister, and its constitution is elastic, and allows of the presence of members of the Dominion Governments? when questions affecting the Dominions are concerned, and on these occasions the Secretary of State for the Colonies is present or is represented. In this Committee, combined with occasional Conferences such as that of 1909, would seem {or the present at least to lie the mode of securing a certain amount of continuity in the defence policy of the Empire. In general the local army Acts are based on the Imperial model, but differ considerably as to punishments, which are aormally less severe. In time of war, however, the full rigour of the Imperial Acts prevails. Outside the limits of the Dominion the troops reniain subject to Colonial legislation, if any ; if not, they fall under the Army Act, in accordance with the express terms of s. 177 of that Act. But to this rule there is the exception that men sent for training to other forces now by Imperial and local legislation fall under the control of the Dominion or the United Kingdom, according to where they are serving at the time. Moreover, legislation has now been adopted by Australia and New Zealand in 1909 under * See Parl. Pap., Cd. 4048 ; 5335, p 4 * For practical purposes it seems to supersede the joint naval and military Colonial Committee established in 1890 ; see (\. 5979, p. viii. Cf. Parl. Pap., Cd. 2200 ; 3524, pp. 15-7; Hansard, ser. 4, cxxxix. 68, 619: cxlvi. 62 ; House of Commons Debates, viii. 337, 1382 seq. ® e.g. in 1911 defence matters were held over for discussion with the Ministers of Defence of Canada, Australasia. and the Union.

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