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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UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA 1583 Chief Justice of South Africa, or some other Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. IV. Every Governor-General, and every other officer appointed to administer the Government of the Union after the said first appointed Governor-General, shall take the oath of Allegiance and the Oath of Office in the forms provided by an Act passed in the Session holden in the thirty-first and thirty-second years of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled ‘ An Act to amend the Law relating to Promissory Oaths’; which Oaths the Chief Justice of South Africa, or some other Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa, shall and he is hereby required to tender and administer unto him or them. V. And We do authorize and require the Governor-General from time to time, by himself or by any other person to be authorized by him in that behalf, to administer to all and to every person or persons, as he shall think fit, who shall hold any office or place of trust or profit in the Union, the said Oath of Allegiance, together with such other Oath or Oaths as may from time to time be prescribed by any laws or statutes in that behalf made and provided. VI. And We do require the Governor-General to communicate forthwith to the Members of the Executive Council for the Union these Qur Instructions, and likewise all such others, from time to time, as he shall find convenient for Our service to be imparted to them. VII. The Governor-General shall not assent in Our name to any bill which We have specially instructed him through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State to reserve; and he shall take special care that he does not assent to any bill which he may be required under the South Africa Act, 1909, to reserve; and in particular he shall reserve any bill which disqualifies any person in the Province of the Cape of Good Hope, who, under the laws existing in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope at the establishment of the Union, is, or may become, capable of being registered as a voter, from being so registered in the Province of the Cape of Good Hope by reason of his race or colour only. VIII. The Governor-General is to take care that all laws assented bo by him in Our name, or reserved for the signification of Our pleasure thereon, shall, when transmitted by him, be fairly abstracted in the margins, and be accompanied, in such cases as may seem to him necessary, with such explanatory observations as may be required to exhibit the reasons and occasions for proposing such laws; and he shall also transmit fair copies of the Journals and Minutes of the proceedings of the Parliament of the Union, which he is to require from the clerks, or other proper officers in that behalf. of the said Parliament. IX. And We do further authorize and empower the Governor General, as he shall see occasion, in Our name and on Our behalf, when any crime or offence against the laws of the Union has been 112

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