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    The Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 63) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Its long title is "An Act to remove Doubts...
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    Australian laws void for being repugnant to the law of the United Kingdom, the British Parliament passed the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 to validate...
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    Bill of rights (redirect from Rights act)
    is part of UK law. The Human Rights Act 1998 also incorporates the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law. In the 21st...
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    Statute of Westminster 1931 (category British constitutional laws concerning Ireland)
    local laws as contrary ("repugnant") to the legislation in Britain. Westminster rectified this situation by passing the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, which...
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  • Constitutional history of Australia (category Australian constitutional law)
    arrangements were confirmed by the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865. The Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 was a British Act of Parliament to define the relationship...
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  • probably drafted them".: 38  In earlier legislation, such as the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, the term "colonies" had been used to distinguish "all of Her...
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    Nadan v R (category Canadian constitutional case law)
    of Canada with respect to the restrictions laid out in the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, and whether it possessed extraterritorial jurisdiction. In...
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    retrieved 7 May 2020 (IMP); Australian Constitutions Act (No 2) (IMP). Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 (PDF), archived (PDF) from the original on 11 March...
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  • Board) v Laseur (2003),  [2003] 2 SCC  54 (SCC). para 28. Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, (U.K.) 28 & 29 Vict., c. 63. Statute of Westminster, 1931...
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    The British Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 provided that a British colony could not enact laws which altered provisions of British laws which applied...
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    British Coal Corp v R (category Canadian constitutional case law)
    Parliament under the British North America Act, 1867, because of provisions of the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865. After Nadan, the Imperial Parliament passed...
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    Law Statutes 1998, vol 3, p 113. Section 1 of the Colonial Governors (Pensions) Act 1872 (c. 29) authorised the citation of this act as the Colonial Governors...
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    Relating to the Inherited Imperial Law and to Statutes Previously Covered by the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 (Report). Vol. 102. pp. 3, 5. 3 Will...
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    parties". MPs and Lords. UK Parliament. Retrieved 16 July 2023. Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 Statute of Westminster 1931 "What is the role of Parliament...
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    Although the 1835 Act applied throughout the British Empire, it was among the class of laws which the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 allowed colonies...
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  • List of Canadian constitutional documents (category Canada law-related lists)
    enacted some Canadian constitutional documents by means of the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 and the Statute of Westminster, 1931, most notably the British...
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    statutes are part of Canadian law because of the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865; section 129 of the Constitution Act, 1867; and the Statute of Westminster...
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    the 1986 Constitution Act. The powers of the Assembly were given in the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, which stated that colonial legislatures had full...
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    succession laws must be changed in each Commonwealth realm, as was done most recently following the Perth Agreement. The Constitution Act contains a preamble...
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  • and the repeal of the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, gave the federal parliament the ability to make extraterritorial laws and abolish appeals to the...
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    1856 was invalid, causing the Imperial Parliament to pass the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865. Boothby was removed as a justice of the Supreme Court in July...
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  • intervene in the governments of the individual states under the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865. As a result, the state governors continued to be formally...
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  • various laws of the United Kingdom, "the United Kingdom" is defined to exclude the Isle of Man. Such laws include the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, the...
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    affairs through the passage of Imperial (British) laws such as the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, constitutional amendments, and an increasingly hands-off...
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  • Form of action (category Common law legal terminology)
    Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 and while it was repealed in England, continued to apply by paramount force in South Australia. The Supreme Court Act 1935 grants...
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    Westminster 1931. Section two of the Statute repealed the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, section three allowed the Parliament to legislate extraterritoriality...
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    the Parliament of Canada as it was contrary to s. 2 of the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865. Nadan, together with the King–Byng Affair, was a major irritant...
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    Law (Declaration of Application) Act (Cap 13), which dates from 1705. Doubts as to the validity of those statutes were removed by the Colonial Laws Validity...
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  • Constitution Act 1852, the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, the British Settlements Act 1887, the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900, the South...
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    Empire is considered to have begun with the foundation of the English colonial empire in the late 16th century. Since then, many territories around the...
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