Full text: Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

char, 11] THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA 971 
of the Governor-General in Council and in accordance with 
regulations to be framed by Parliament ; (3) education other 
than higher education for a period of five years, and there- 
after until Parliament otherwise provides; (4) agriculture, 
to the extent and subject to the conditions to be defined 
by Parliament; (5) the establishment, maintenance, and 
management of hospitals and charitable institutions; 
(6) municipal institutions, divisional councils, and other 
local institutions of a similar nature; (7) local works and 
undertakings within the province other than railways, 
harbours, and such works as extend beyond the borders of 
the province, and subject to the power of Parliament to 
declare any work a national work, and to provide for its 
construction by arrangement with the Provincial Council or 
otherwise ; (8) roads, outspans, ponts, and bridges, other 
than bridges connecting two provinces; (9) markets and 
pounds ; (10) fish and game preservation ; (11) the imposi- 
tion of punishment by fine, penalty, or imprisonment, for 
enforcing any law or ordinance of the province made in 
relation to any matter coming within any of the classes of 
subjects enumerated ; (12) generally all matters which in the 
opinion of the Governor-General in Council are of a merely 
local or private matter in the provinces; (13) all other 
subjects in respect of which Parliament shall by a law 
delegate the power of making ordinances to the Provincial 
Councils. Moreover, a Provincial Council may recommend 
to Parliament the making of a law relating to any matter in 
respect of which the Council itself cannot pass an ordinance, 
and in cases which must be dealt with by a private Act in 
the Parliament the Provincial Council may, subject to such 
procedure as Parliament may lay down, take evidence by 
means of a select committee or otherwise, and report, and 
on the receipt of the report or evidence, the Parliament may 
pass the Act without requiring the taking of further evidence.! 
Any Bill so passed by the Provincial Council shall be 
presented to the Governor-General in Council for his assent, 
and he must declare within a month that he assents or declines 
Mr. (now Sir BE.) Kilpin’s suggestion, ibid., i. 414.
	        
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