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The Statute of Westminster 1931 [a] is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that sets the basis for the relationship between the Dominions (now called Commonwealth realms) and the Crown. [1] Passed on 11 December 1931, the statute [2] increased the sovereignty of the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire from the United ...
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Statute of Westminster 1931 [1] 22 & 23 Geo. 5. c. 4. 11 December 1931. An Act to give effect to certain resolutions passed by Imperial Conferences held in the years ...
The Act's main purpose was to adopt sections two, three, four, five and six of the Statute of Westminster 1931. [1] Section two of the Statute repealed the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, section three allowed the Parliament to legislate extraterritoriality, section four disallowed the British Parliament to legislate for the Dominion, except by its own consent.
The Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 is an act of the Australian Parliament that formally adopted sections 2–6 of the Statute of Westminster 1931, an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom enabling the total legislative independence of the various self-governing Dominions of the British Empire.
The 1930 Imperial Conference was the sixth Imperial Conference bringing together the prime ministers of the dominions of the British Empire.It was held in London. [1] The conference was notable for producing the Statute of Westminster, which established legislative equality for the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire with Great Britain, thereby marking the effective legislative ...
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These new developments were explicitly codified in 1931 with the passage of the Statute of Westminster, through which Canada, the Union of South Africa, and the Irish Free State all immediately obtained formal legislative independence from the UK, while in the other dominions adoption of the statute was subject to ratification by the dominion's ...