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C.O.885

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Officers hold- ing during good Be-

haviour.

Delegation of Legisla tive Powers by Colonial

Legislatures.

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Colony for or respecting the Removal or Suspension from his Office of any Judge or other public Officer in such Colony holding his Office during good Behaviour, such Judge or other Officer shall, unless such Removal or Sus- pension shall be effected under the Royal Signet and Sign Manual, be entitled to appeal against such Re- moval or Suspension to Her Majesty in Council, anything contained in any such Colonial Law to the contrary notwithstanding:

(4.) It shall not be lawful for any Colonial Legislature to delegate their Powers of Legislation for or over the Colony in which they have Jurisdiction, or any Part thereof, in relation to any of the Subjects next herein-after mentioned; that is to say,

(1.) The Imposition or Regulation of any Duties of Customs:

(2.) The Establishment, Abolition, or Regulation of any Court of Judi- cature, Civil or Criminal:

(3.) The Regulation of the current Coin, or the Issue of Bills, Notes, or other Paper Currencies, or of Weights or Measures:

(4.) The Regulation of Post Offices or the Carriage of Letters:

(5.) Bankruptcy or Insolvency :

(6.) Beacons and Lighthouses on

the Coasts:

(7.) Harbour and Shipping Dues :

(8.) Marriage:

(9.) Lands as to which the Title

of the aboriginal native Owners has

not been extinguished :

(10.) The Privileges or Disabilities and the Status generally of Persons of native or aboriginal Race:

(11.) The

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(11.) The Criminal Law of the Colony :

(12.) The Inheritance or Devolu- tion of Property, Real or Personal, or the Law relating to Wills: And any Colonial Law purporting to delegate any such excepted Powers as aforesaid shall as to every such Delega- tion be absolutely inoperative and void.

And with respect to Bills before the Legisla.

ture of any Franchised Colony-

may return

9. The Governor of any such Colony may, Governor at any Time, and whether any other Bill on the may proposo

Draft Bills same Subject may be pending or not, transmit and Amend. to the Legislative Body or Bodies of such Colony, mente, and or either of them, the Draft of any Bill which it Bill, may appear to him desirable to introduce, or of amended. any Amendment which it may appear to him desirable to make in any Bill presented to him

for his Assent or that of Her Majesty; and the Legislative Body or Bodies shall thereupon take into consideration such Bill or Amendment, in like Manner as if the same had originated in such Legislative Body or One of such Bodies, and may return any Bill in which the Governor shall have so made any Amendment, with a Message signifying their Agreement to or Dis- agreement from the Amendment or any Part thereof, and thereupon the Bill shall be taken to be presented for his Assent or that of Her Majesty, with the Amendments so agreed to.

10. When any Bill shall have been presented Governor

reverse, or

to the Governor of any such Colony for his may assent, Assent or that of Her Majesty, he shall, accord- refuse. ing to his Discretion, (but subject, nevertheless,

to the Provisions of this Act and of his Com- mission, and to the Laws of the Colony for the Time being in force,) either assent thereto in Her Majesty's Name, or by Declaration to that Effect withhold his Assent therefrom, or reserve the same for the Signification thereon of Her Ma-

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jesty's