HC Deb 09 July 1900 vol 85 cc949-50
MR. SWIFT MACNEILL

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether since the gentleman filling for the time being the post of Attorney General at the Cape is, under the provisions of the Cape Constitution Act, a member of the Cape Cabinet, the Governor of the Cape is responsible to the Colonial Office for the rejection of advice offered to him on matters of law by a minister responsible for that advice to the Cape Legislature.

MR. J. CHAMBERLAIN

This is a hypothetical question, and the supposititious fact on which it is based has not, so far as I am aware, arisen.

MR. SWIFT MACNEILL

Has not Sir Alfred Milnor overruled the decision of the Cape Attorney General?

MR. J. CHAMBERLAIN

I have just said that I am not aware that that has happened.