The "Lloyd" Guide to Australasia ...Edward Stanford, 1906 - 469 pages |
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Page 47 - The acquisition of property on just terms from any State or person for any purpose in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws. XXXII. The control of railways with respect to transport for the naval and military purposes of the Commonwealth.
Page 49 - No appeal shall be permitted to the Queen in Council from a decision of the High Court upon any question, howsoever arising, as to the limits inter se of the Constitutional powers of the Commonwealth and those of any State or States, or as to the limits inter ae of the Constitutional powers of any two or more States, unless the High Court shall certify that the question is one which ought to be determined by Her Majesty in Council.
Page 48 - Nothing in this Constitution prohibits a State from granting any aid to or bounty on mining for gold, silver, or other metals, nor from granting, with the consent of both Houses of the Parliament of the Commonwealth expressed by resolution, any aid to or bounty on the production or export of goods.
Page 47 - The people of any race, other than the aboriginal race in any State, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws.
Page 47 - The exercise within the Commonwealth, at the request or with the concurrence of the parliaments of all the States directly concerned, of any power which can at the establishment of this constitution be exercised only by the Parliament of the United Kingdom or by the Federal Council of Australasia.
Page 46 - Naturalization and aliens: (xx) Foreign corporations, and trading or financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth : (xxi) Marriage: (xxii) Divorce and matrimonial causes; and in relation thereto, parental rights, and the custody and guardianship of infants...
Page 46 - Full faith and credit shall be given, throughout the Commonwealth, to the laws, the public Acts and records, and the judicial proceedings of every State.
Page 49 - Of any other federal court, or court exercising federal jurisdiction, or of the supreme court of any State, or of any other court of any State from which at the establishment of the Commonwealth an appeal lies to the Queen in Council.
Page 46 - Banking, other than State banking; also State banking extending beyond the limits of the State concerned, the incorporation of banks, and the issue of paper money...
Page 47 - Matters incidental to the execution of any power vested by this Constitution in the Parliament or in either House thereof, or in the government of the Commonwealth, or in the FederalJudicature, or in any department or officer of the Commonwealth.