LAST CONSTITUTIONAL TIES WITH BRITAIN
Received ilondav, 7.10 p.m. LOXDOX, Dec. L The House of Lords on December 2 will be asked to give ])recedence over all other business to the Xew Zealand Fonstitutioual ( Amendinent ) Hill which Lord Addison last week int roduccd. The Uo\ emmeiil yiroiioses to pass through all the Bill's remaiiiing slages oi, December 2. says the Times' 1'arliainentarv correspondent. The Xew Zert land Parliament last \feek ado])ted sec- ' ions 2 and 6 of tlu: Stalute of Westniinstev and passed a fnrther act asking that the Fnited Kingdom Parliameni sliould legislate to velieve Xew Zealand of Ihe rest rictions reinainifig under an amended act of 18.17. This request is lieing promptly aeted upon. The Bil! which will be eonsidered on Decemlier 2 pioposcs to re]iea! the Xew Zealarui t'onstitut ion ( Aniendnvent ) Act, l.s.")7. and make it lawful for the Xew Zealand Parlianieut to ''alter, suspend or repeal at any time all or any of Ihe provisions of the Xew Zealand Constitution Act, ls.12". The new Bill will remove the last eonst.it ntional restrietions on the Dominion of Xew Zealand.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 December 1947, Page 5
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