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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Collection:: Economics Books

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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA 1569 nature of the powers, though of course within the limits of the statute law of the Colony and of the common-law powers of the Crown in that Colony. The instruments are therefore perfectly simple and useful. It is, however, the division of the documents which has led to the Chief Justice of South Australia thinking that under the power to appoint a deputy Governor given in the letters patent the deputy can only exercise powers resting on the prerogative, and not therefore powers given by statute law, except perhapssuch powersasare merely reaffirmations of prerogative powers. Fora deputy is merely one form of a Governor, and so long as the commission contained both the appointment of the Governor and his powers the right of the Crown to say that a man selected by the Governor should be Governor for certain purposes could hardly be denied! But the division of instruments was neither intended to change nor has it really changed the position. LETTERS PATENT passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, constituting the Office of Governor- General and Commander-in-Chief of the Commonwealth of Anstralia,. Letters Patent, Dated 29th October 1900. Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India : To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting. WHEREAS, by an Act of Parliament passed on the Ninth day of July 1900, in the Sixty-fourth year of Our Reign, intituled An Act to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia’? it is enacted that “it shall be lawful for the Queen, with the advice of the Privy Council, to declare by Proclamation that, on and after a day therein ap- pointed, not being later than one year after the passing of this Act, the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, and also, if Her Majesty is satisfied that the people of Western Australia have agreed thereto, of Western Australia, shall be united in a Federal Commonwealth under the name of the Commonwealth of Australia. But the Queen may, at any time after proclamation. appoint a Governor- General for the Commonwealth :’ And whereas We did on the Seventeenth day of September One thousand nine hundred. bv and with the advice of Qur Privy Council, ¢ Unless it were held that there could only be one person at a time with guber- natorial functions, and for this I know no authority, while practice has uniformly heen otherwige 2°69 B4 Vict 0 19.

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