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Section 55 of the Constitution Act, 1867 (French: article 55 de la Loi constitutionnelle de 1867) is a provision of the Constitution of Canada relating to the power of the Governor General of Canada to give royal assent to a bill passed by the federal houses of Parliament.
The purpose of this section is to protect the powers of the Senate to amend bills. According to section 53, [3] the Senate cannot amend or originate taxation bills (see above). Thus, without the restrictions imposed by section 55, the House of Representatives could prevent the Senate from amending any bill simply by putting something into it ...
Reservation is the decision by a representative of the Crown to withhold royal assent from an act of the federal Parliament under section 55 of the Constitution Act, 1867, or an act of a provincial legislature under section 90 of the Constitution Act, 1867. [14]
Section 55 of the Constitution of Australia provides a single-subject rule for taxation legislation: "Laws imposing taxation shall deal only with the imposition of taxation, and any provision therein dealing with any other matter shall be of no effect". The same section also requires laws imposing taxation to "deal with one subject of taxation ...
The powers of disallowance and reservation still exist at the federal level in Australia, and are described in sections 58 to 60 of the Australian Constitution.Section 58 gives the governor-general an additional power, that of returning a bill to Parliament with suggested amendments.
The United States Constitution and its amendments comprise hundreds of clauses which outline the functioning of the United States Federal Government, the political relationship between the states and the national government, and affect how the United States federal court system interprets the law. When a particular clause becomes an important ...
Section 17 of the Act provides that the federal Parliament is composed of the monarch, the Senate and the House of Commons. Section 55 of the Act sets out the power of the Governor General to grant or refuse royal assent to bills passed by the two houses of the federal Parliament, or to reserve a bill for the consideration of the British Cabinet.
The High Court unanimously held that the fee for migration clearance was a tax. If section 55 of the Australian Constitution (which requires that legislation imposing tax deals only with imposing tax) is read literally, the effect of this decision would have invalidated the rest of the Migration Act. The Court was thus careful to invalidate ...