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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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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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1566 "PREROGATIVE INSTRUMENTS when any crime or offence against the Laws of Our said Dominion 1 bas been committed for which the offender may be tried therein, to grant a pardon to any accomplice, in such crime or offence, who shall give such information as shall lead to the conviction of the principal offender, or of any one of such offenders if more than one; and further, to grant to any offender convicted of any such crime or offence in any Court, or before any Judge, Justice, or Magistrate, within Our said Dominion, a pardon, either free or subject to lawful conditions, or any respite of the execution of the sentence of any such offender, for such period as to Our said Governor-General may seem fit, and to remit any fines, penalties, or forfeitures which may become due and payable to Us. Provided always, that Our said Governor-General shall not in any case, except where the offence has been of a political nature, make it a condition of any pardon or remission of sentence that the offender shall be banished from or shall absent himself from Our said Dominion. And we do hereby direct and enjoin that Our said Governor-General shall not pardon or reprieve any such offender without first receiving in capital cases the advice of the Privy Council for Our said Dominion, and in other cases the advice of one, at least, of his Ministers ; and in any case in which such pardon or reprieve might directly affect the interests of Our Empire, or of any country or place beyond the jurisdiction of the Government of Our said Dominion, Our said Governor-General shall, before deciding as to either pardon or reprieve, take those interests specially into his own personal consideration in conjunction with such advice as aforesaid. VI. And whereas great prejudice may happen to Our service and to the security of Our said Dominion by the absence of Our said Governor-General, he shall not, upon any pretence whatever, quit Our said Dominion without having first obtained leave from Us for so doing under Our Sign Manual and Signet. or through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State. TIT ER &L COMMISSION passed under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, appointing Field Marshal His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught and (of) Strathearn, K.G., K.T., K.P., ¢.C.B., G.CSI, G.CMG.,, GCILE., G.CV.0., to be Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Do- minion of Canada. Dated March 6. 1911. i, e. not offences against provincial laws, as he was empowered to do up to 1905. - See p. 1561, n. 2, for the omission: of reference to crimes triable in the Dominion though committed outside, an omission which occurs also in Union Instructions, clause ix. In the Union the Governor-General would seem to have no power to pardon offences against provincial as opposed to Union laws, for ‘laws of the Union’ can hardly be pressed to mean ‘laws in force in this Union’. Cf. p. 1574, n. 1.

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