Oeuvres complètes

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Identifikator:: 836084659

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-28892

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Ricardo, David

Title:: Oeuvres complètes

Place of publication:: Paris

Publisher:: Guillaumin

Year of publication:: 1847

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XLVIII, 752 S)

Collection:: Economics Books

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crap. m1] THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA 965 preside, and the rules of the Assembly shall prevail. Ministers may speak in either House, but can only vote in that House in which they have seats (s. 52). The Parliament is given plenary power of legislation for the Union,? subject to the requirement of the royal assent and the possibility of disallowance by the Crown. The Governor-General is to declare, according to his discretion, but subject to the provisions of the Act and also to the royal instructions, that he assents in the King’s name, or that he withholds assent, or that he reserves a Bill for the signification of the King’s pleasure. He may also return a Bill with amendments for the further consideration of the House in which it originated. The King may further disallow any Act within a year after the assent of the Governor-General, and such disallowance will, on being communicated to Parliament by speech or message or by proclamation, have offect as annulling the law. Similarly a reserved Bill must be assented to within a year of the time when it was presented to the Governor-General for the royal assent, or it will have no effect. These rules differ in one or two points from the established practice. They follow the example of the Commonwealth in leaving to the Governor-General’s discre- tion the question of reserving Bills, and in the original draft made no allusion to the possibility of instructions being given by the Crown to the Governor-General, a possibility expressly recognized in the British North America Act, 1867 (s. 55), and in the Australian States Constitution Act, 1907. Of course this did not really prevent the giving of instruc- tions, as the Governor-General as an Imperial officer is subject to His Majesty’s directions, or again the discretion he is to use is not, it may be said, his individual discretion, but his discretion as an Imperial officer ; but to avoid doubt the Bloemfontein Conference inserted a reference to the royal t So also in Vietoria under Act No. 1864, but there not as of right but by permission, and only one minister at a time can use the permission; the Union provision is that formerly in force in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, Cape, and Natal. ' g5, 59-67. This was advised by the Chief Justice of the Cape.

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