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SECTION E: MALTA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2014

Extract

‘The Malta Integration Bill’, 16 November 1957

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 2014 

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References

1 Section 4 of the Statute of Westminster (1931) stipulated that the Parliament of the United Kingdom would not legislate for any Dominion except by consent.

2 Section 2 declared that any laws passed by a Dominion parliament could no longer be declared void by the Parliament of the United Kingdom if repugnant to English law, and consequently the Colonial Laws Validity Act (1865) would cease to apply.

3 Stanley Alexander de Smith, Professor of Public Law at the London School of Economics, later Downing Professor of the Laws of England at Cambridge. De Smith was also a constitutional adviser across the Commonwealth and corresponded with Jennings.

4 Not included.