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Initially, the act did not extend to peers, but in 1678 the act was extended by a further act, the Parliament Act 1678 (30 Cha. 2. 2. St. 2 ), [ 6 ] which required that all peers and members of the House of Commons should make a declaration against transubstantiation, invocation of saints, and the sacrificial nature of the Mass . [ 1 ]
The Plantation Act 1740 (referring to colonies) or the Naturalization Act 1740 [1] are common names [2] [3] used for an act of the British Parliament (13 Geo. 2.c. 7) that was officially titled An Act for Naturalizing such foreign Protestants and others therein mentioned, as are settled or shall settle in any of His Majesty's Colonies in America.
[3] [4] The phrase is also written on the paper of the bill to show that the monarch granted royal assent to the bill. [5] Should royal assent be withheld, the expression Le Roy/La Reyne s'avisera, "The King/Queen will advise him/her self" (i.e., will take the bill under advisement), a paraphrase of the Law Latin euphemism Rex / Regina ...
grant Royal Assent, thereby making the bill an Act of Parliament. delay the bill's assent through the use of reserve powers, thereby invoking a veto [8] refuse Royal Assent on the advice of his or her ministers. [9] The last bill that was refused assent was the Scottish Militia Bill during Queen Anne's reign in 1708. [10]
An Act to fix the Salary of the Governor General reduced the salary of the governor general from $10,000 to $6,500 which was not granted and was not recommended for royal assent by the governor general or by the Secretary of State for the Colonies Marquess of Chandos. [59] The second bill, An Act respecting the Treaty between Her Majesty and ...
Income tax measures were implemented through Bill C-59 which was read a third time and passed on 21 February 1995 in a 129–64 vote [11] and received royal assent on 26 March 1995 [12] whereas changes announced in the 8 February Statement and the reduction of the GST input tax credits claimable on meal and entertainment expenses is legislated ...
If the governor-general reserves a bill for the sovereign's assent, the bill will die unless the sovereign approves it within two years of its passage. However, the power of disallowance has never been used in relation to Australian federal legislation, and reservation has likewise been rare to nonexistent.
An Act for repealing so much of an Act, passed in the twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for the Removal and Rebuilding of the Council Chamber, Guildhall, and Gaol of the City of New Sarum, and for ascertaining the Tolls of the Market, and regulating the Chairmen within the said City," [au] as requires the ...