Regarding the position of Governors-General the Committee states that it is essential, in consequence of equality of status, that a Governor-General of a Dominion is the representative of the Crown, holding in all essential respects the same position, in relation to the administration of the public affairs in the Dominion, as is held by the King in Britain, and that he is not the representative or agent of the Government in Great Britain or of any department of that Government The practice by which the Governor-General is the formal official channel of communication between the Government in Britain and tht Government in a Dominion might, therefore, be regarded as no longer wholly in accordance with the eonstitutional "position of Governors. General, It ix thotight that the reorganized official channel of communication should be, in the future, between Government and Government direct, Details were left for settlement as soon as the conference had completed ity work, but it was agreed that a Gorernor-General should 10 Kept as fully informed as is the King in Britain of Cabinet business fand public affairs, and the confer fence recommended Britain and. the Dominions to establish a committee to investigate, first, the existing statutory provisions requiring reservation of Dominion -legislation for the assent of His Majesty, of authorizing disallowance of such legislation; secondly, the " present Position as to the competence Dominion Parliaments is. to give their legislative extraterritorial operations and also. practicability and the most convenient method of giving effect to the principle that each Dominion Parliament. should have the power to give extra ter Fitorial operation to its legislation {in all eases where such operation is auxiliary to provision for the peace, order and good Government of the Dominion; thirdly, the principles embodied' in the' Colonial Lowe Validity Act, 1865, and the need of amendment, The Question of Appeals The Committee discussed the conditions governing appeals from judgments in the Dominions to the Judicial Committee -of the Privy Council. From these discussions it became clear that it was not part of the policy of the British Government that questions _affecting judicial appeals should be deter-ined otherwise than in accordance with agreement.
Regarding relations with foreign Governments the Committee points: out that in the case of treaties negotiated under the League of Nations, adherence to the working of the annexe to the Covenant has led to the use of the term "British Empire" with enumeration of the! Dominions and India, if parties to the Convention, but ' without any' mention of Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Colonies and Prote: torates.
Complete approval was expressed of the manner in which the Locarno treaties "had been negotiated: and congratulations were expressed -t0
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