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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) (1912), pp. 49, 50Section 59 has never been used and section 60 has been used ten times. However, both sections ceased to operate in the 1930's when the UK Parliament introduced the Statute of Westminster.
It seems clear that no question of any reserve power lurks within the terms of s.68 and practical considerations make it essential, even were constitutional ones not also to require it, that the Governor-General should have no independent discretion conferred upon him by that section...
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: CS1 maint: date and year (link)It seems clear that no question of any reserve power lurks within the terms of s.68 and practical considerations make it essential, even were constitutional ones not also to require it, that the Governor-General should have no independent discretion conferred upon him by that section...
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) (1912), pp. 49, 50