Memorandum C: Should The Constitution Be A Schedule To The Bill?

This change may have had its origin in Memorandum C, which was one of three memoranda drawn up in 1897 by the Colonial Office with advice from Crown Law Officers.3\J The preamble of Memorandum C discussed the form in which the Constitution Bill could be introduced into the United
Kingdom Parliament.40 Should the Constitution be a Schedule to the Bill or be included within the substantive provisions of the Bill? The Constitution
Bill approved on 23 Apri11897 at the Adelaide Session of the Constitutional
Convention set forth the Constitution as part of the Bill in covering clause 8.41 There was a notable precedent for this format in the British
North America Act 1867 (UK).42 On the other hand there existed precedents for including the Constitution