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

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part VIII. Imperial unity and imperial co-operation

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1532 IMPERIAL UNITY [PART VIII each Dominion being left free to grant local nationality on such terms as its legislature should think fit. (2) The Mother Country finds it necessary to maintain five years as the qualifying period. This is a safeguard to the Dominions aswell as to her, but five years anywhere in the Empire should be as good as five years in the United Kingdom. (3) The grant of Imperial nationality is in every case discretionary, and this discretion should be exercised by those responsible in the area in which the applicant has spent the last twelve months. (4) The Imperial Act should be so framed as to enable sach self-governing Dominion to adopt it. (5) Nothing now proposed would affect the validity and effectiveness of local laws regulating immigration or the like, or differentiating between classes of British subjects. The Bill was accordingly at once re-drafted ! (f) Commercial Relations? and (g) the All-Red Route.’ The non-political subjects must be considered briefly. Sir W. Laurier disposed of the vexed question of (f) com- mercial relations by moving a resolution which was accepted by the Imperial Government subject to a rider to safeguard the Imperial Government and the Dominions from being obliged to accept recommendations from the Commission as to tariff policy. As so amended the resolution (xx) runs :— That His Majesty should be approached with a view to the appointment of a Royal Commission representing the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Newfoundland, with a view of investigating and report- ing upon the natural resources of each part of the Empire represented at the Conference, the development attained and attainable, and the facilities for production, manufacture, and distribution ; the trade of each part with the others and with the outside world, the food and raw material require- ments of each and the sources thereof available, to what extent, if any, the trade between each of the different parts has been affected by existing legislation in each, either ' Parl. Pap., Cd. 5746-1, pp. 253 seq. Parl. Pap., Cd. 5745, pp. 339-41. ® Ibid., pp. 344-58,

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