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NATAL LAW No. 14 OF 1893.
(Extract.)
6. Whenever any Bill has been passed by the Legislative Council and may assent Legislative Assembly, it shall be presented to the Governor, who may either return the same by Message for the reconsideration of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly with such amendment as he may think fitting, reserve them. Or, subject to Royal Instructions, may assent to the same in Her Majesty's name, or may declare that he refuses his assent to the same, or that he reserves the same for the signification of the Royal pleasure thereon.
Bills or
Disallow-
ance of Bills
by Her Majesty in Conncil.
7. If at any time within two years after the Governor has assented to any Bill in Her Majesty's name, it shall be notified to him through one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State that Her Majesty in Council has been pleased to disallow the Act so assented to, the Governor shall forthwith signify such disallowance by Message to the Legislative Council and Legis- lative Assembly, or by Proclamation in the Government Gazette, and from and after the date of such Message or Proclamation the said Act shall become null and void.
NEWFOUNDLAND.
ROYAL INSTRUCTIONS, March 28, 1876.
(Extract.)
XVII. Our said Governor is not to assent in Our name to any Bill of any of the classes hereinafter specified, that is to say:
1. Any Bill for the divorce of persons joined together in holy matrimony. 2. Any Bill whereby any grant of land or money or other donation or
gratuity may be made to himself.
3. Any Bill whereby any paper or other currency may be made a legal tender, except the coin of the realm or other gold or silver coin.
4. Any Bill imposing differential duties.
5. Any Bill the provisions of which shall appear inconsistent with obligations
imposed upon Us by Treaty.
6. Any Bill interfering with the discipline or control of Our forces in Our
said Colony by land and sea.
7. Any Bill of an extraordinary nature and importance, whereby Our prerogative, or the rights and property of Our subjects not residing in Our said Colony, or the trade and shipping of the United Kingdom and its Dependencies, may be prejudiced."
8. Any Bill containing provisions to which Our assent has been once
refused, or which have been disallowed by Us :-
Unless such Bill shall contain a clause suspending the operation of such Bill until the signification in Our said Colony of Our pleasure thereupon, or unless Our said Governor shall have satisfied himself that an urgent necessity exists requiring that such Bill be brought into immediate operation, in which case he is authorised to assent in Our name to such Bill unless the same shall be repugnant to the law of England, or inconsistent with any obligations imposed upon Us by Treaty. But he is to transmit to Us, by the earliest opportunity, the Bill so assented to, together with his reasons for assenting thereto.
XVIII. And we do further direct and enjoin Our said Governor to transmit to Us, through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, a transcript in duplicate of every Law which has been assented to by him in Our name, together with a marginal abstract thereof duly authenticated under the Public Seal of Our said Colony, and that such transcript shall be accompanied with such explanatory observations as may be required to exhibit the reasons and occasion for proposing such laws; and that in case any such law shall at any time be disallowed, and so signified by Us, Our Heirs and Successors, under Our or their Sign-Manual and Signet, or by Order of Our or their Privy Council unto him, then such Law as shall be so disallowed shall from thenceforth cease, determine, and become utterly void and of none effect, anything to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.
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CAPE COLONY.
ROYAL INSTRUCTIONS, February 26, 1877.
(Extract.)
XI. Our said Governor is not to assent in Our name to any Bill of any one of the classes hereinafter specified, that is to say :-
1. Any Bill for the divorce of persons joined together in holy matrimony.
2. Any Bill whereby any grant of land or money, or other donation or
gratuity, may be made to himself.
3. Any Bill whereby any paper or other currency may be made a legal tender, except the coin of the realm or other gold or silver coin.
4. Any Bill imposing differential duties.
5. Any Bill the provisions of which shall appear inconsistent with
obligations imposed upon Us by Treaty.
6. Any Bill interfering with the discipline or control of Our forces in Our
said Colony by land and sea.
7. Any Bill of an extraordinary nature and importance, whereby Our prerogative, or the rights and property of Our subjects not residing in Our said Colony, or the trade and shipping of the United Kingdom and its Dependencies, may be prejudiced.
8. Any Bill containing provisions to which Our assent has been once
refused, or which have been disallowed by Us:
Unless such Bill shall contain a clause suspending the operation of such Bill until the signification in Our said Colony of Our pleasure thereupon, or unless Our said Governor shall have satisfied himself that an urgent necessity exists requiring that such Bill be brought into immediate operation, in which case he is authorised to assent in Our name to such Bill unless the same shall be repugnant to the law of England, or inconsistent with any obligations imposed upon Us by Treaty. But he is to transmit to Us by the earliest opportunity the Bill so assented to, together with his reasons for assenting thereto.
XII. Our said Governor is to take care that all laws assented to 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 accom- panied, 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 or Minutes of the proceedings of the Legislative Bodies of Our said Colony, which he to require from the Clerks or other proper Officers in that behalf of the said Legislative Bodies.
CAPE COLONY ORDINANCE No. 2 of 1852. (Extract.)
to refuse to
82. And be it enacted, that whenever any Bill which has been passed by Power of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Colony of the Cape of Good Governor to Hope, shall be presented for Her Majesty's assent to the Governor of the assent to, or said Colony, such Governor shall declare according to his discretion, but assent to, or subject nevertheless to the provisions contained in this Ordinance, and to to reserve fur such instructions as may from time to time be given in that behalf by Her the Royal Majesty, Her heirs or successors, that he assents to such Bill in Her Majesty's pleasure Bills name, or that he refuses his assent to such Bill, or that he reserves such Bill which have
passed the for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon. Provided always, two Houses. that it shall and may be lawful for the Governor, before declaring his pleasure in regard to any Bill which shall have been so presented to him, to make such amendments in such Bill as he shall think needful or expedient, and by message to return such Bill, with such amendments, to the Legis- lative Council, or the House of Assembly, as he shall think more fitting; and the consideration of such amendments by the said Council and Assembly respectively shall take place in such convenient manner as shall, in and by the rules and orders aforesaid be in that behalf provided.
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