ANNEXURE 10 - IMPERIAL CONFERENCE, 1930

ANNEXURE 10

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE, 1930
Extract from

SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS IMPERIAL CONFERENCE 1930*

Presented to Parliament by
Command of His Majesty,
November, 1930

VI-INTER-IMPERIAL RELATIONS
(g.) Appointment of Governors-General.

The Report of the Inter-Imperial Relations Committee of the Imperial Conference of 1926 declared that the Governor-General of a Dominion is now the "representative of the Crown, holding in all essential respects the same position in relation to the administration of public affairs in the Dominion as is held by His Majesty the King in Great Britain and that he is not the representative or agent of His Majesty's Government in Great Britain or of any Department of that Government"

The Report did not, however, contain any recommendation as to the procedure to be adopted henceforward in the appointment of a Governor-General, and the Crown felt it necessary to give consideration to this question.

Having considered the question of the procedure to be observed in the appointment of a Governor-General of a Dominion in the light of the alteration in his position from the Resolutions of the Imperial Conference of 1926, the Conference came to the conclusion that the following statements in regard thereto would seem to flow from the new position of the Governor-General as representative of His Majesty only.

1. The parties interested in the appointment of a Governor-General of a Dominion are His Majesty the King, whose representative he is, and the Dominion concerned.
2. The constitutional practice that His Majesty acts on the advice of responsible Ministers applies also in this instance.
3. The Ministers who tender and are responsible for such advice are His Majesty's Ministers in the Dominion concerned.
4. The Ministers concerned tender their formal advice after informal consultation with His
5. The channel of communication between His Majesty and the Government of any Dominion is a matter solely concerning His Majesty and such Government. His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have expressed their willingness to continue to act in relation to any of His Majesty's Governments in any manner in which that Government may
6. The manner in which the instrument containing the Governor-General’s appointment should reflect the principles set forth above is a matter in which His Majesty is advised by His Ministers in the Dominion concert

* Printed by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1926