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1865. [British] Colonial Laws Validity Acts Nos 28 & 29

According to this, "there yould be no competition between Westminster and a colonial legislature: any colonial law repugnant to an Act of British Parliament extending to that colony was null and void" (Dugard 1978: 28).

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