Editing Veto (section)

=== Oceania ===
[[File:Oceania without Asian country codes.jpg|thumb|Oceania]]
* {{flag|Australia}}: According to the [[Australian Constitution]] (sec. 59), the [[Monarchy of Australia|monarch]] may veto a bill that has been given royal assent by the [[governor-general of Australia|governor-general]] within one year of the legislation being assented to.<ref name="gov.au">{{cite web |url=http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/item.asp?dID=25 |title=Documenting Democracy |publisher=Foundingdocs.gov.au |date=9 October 1942 |access-date=2012-08-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110601205107/http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/item.asp?dID=25 |archive-date=1 June 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> This power has never been used. The Australian governor-general himself or herself has, in theory, the power to veto, or more technically, withhold assent to, a bill passed by both houses of the [[Australian Parliament]], and contrary to the advice of the prime minister.<ref name="hamer">{{Cite web |last=Hamer |first=David |author-link=David Hamer |year=2002 |work=Can Responsible Government Survive in Australia? |title=Curiously ill-defined – the role of the head of state |publisher=Australian Government – Department of the Senate |location=Canberra |orig-year=1994, University of Canberra |url=http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practice_n_procedures/~/~/link.aspx?_id=9495A9BDD2964D7DB682C13BFA5D4D1A&_z=z |access-date=1 November 2015}}</ref> However, in matters of assent to legislation, the governor-general is advised by parliament, not by the government. Consequently, when a minority parliament passes a bill against the wishes of the government, the government could resign, but cannot advise a veto.<ref name="hamer" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://theconversation.com/why-a-government-would-be-mad-to-advise-the-refusal-of-royal-assent-to-a-bill-passed-against-its-will-110501|title=Why a government would be mad to advise the refusal of royal assent to a bill passed against its will|last= Twomey | first=Anne|date=28 January 2019 }}</ref> Since 1986, the individual states of Australia are fully independent entities. Thus, the Crown may not veto (nor the UK Parliament overturn) any act of a state governor or state legislature. State constitutions determine what role the state's governor plays. In general, the governor exercises the powers the sovereign would have; in all states and territories, the governor's (or, for territories, administrator's) assent is required for a bill to become law, except the [[Australian Capital Territory]], which has no administrator.<ref>{{Cite web
  | url =  https://www.moadoph.gov.au/blog/what-does-a-state-governor-do/
  | access-date = 2022-06-19
  | title = What does a state governor do?
  | publisher = Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House
  | author = Campbell Rhodes
  | date = 2018-04-30
}}</ref>{{further|Politics of Australia}}
*{{flag|Federated States of Micronesia}}: The [[President of the Federated States of Micronesia|President]] can disapprove legislation passed by the [[Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia|Congress]].<ref name="fsom-ix-22">{{cite constitution
| article = IX
| section = 22
| polity = the Federated States of Micronesia
| date = 1979
}}</ref> The veto must be exercised within 10 days, or 30 days if the Congress is not in session.<ref name="fsom-ix-22"/> The Congress can override the veto by a three-fourths vote of the four state delegations, with each state delegation casting one vote.<ref name="fsom-ix-2q">{{cite constitution
| article = IX
| section = 2(q)
| polity = the Federated States of Micronesia
| date = 1979
}}</ref>{{further|Politics of the Federated States of Micronesia}}
*{{flag|Fiji}}: Under the 2013 [[Constitution of Fiji|Constitution]], the [[President of Fiji|President]] has no authority to veto legislation that has been passed by the [[Parliament of Fiji|Parliament]]. Under the previous bicameral constitutions, the appointed [[Senate of Fiji|Senate]] had veto powers over legislation passed by the elected lower house. {{further|Politics of Fiji}}
*{{flag|New Zealand}}: Under the Standing Orders of the [[New Zealand House of Representatives|House of Representatives]], the [[New Zealand Government|Government]] has a [[financial veto]], under which it can block bills, amendments and motions that would have more than a minor impact on the Government's fiscal aggregates.<ref>{{Cite web
  | url =  https://dpmc.govt.nz/our-business-units/cabinet-office/supporting-work-cabinet/cabinet-manual/7-executive-legislation-11
  | access-date = 2022-06-12
  | title = Crown's financial veto
  | publisher = Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
  | work = Cabinet Manual
  | quote = Crown's financial veto
}}</ref> Bills can be subjected to a financial veto only on third reading, when they have been finalized, but before they have been passed.<ref name="mcgee">{{Cite book
  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ENgvEAAAQBAJ
  | title = Parliamentary Practice in New Zealand
  | first = David 
  | last = McGee
  | date = May 2021
 | publisher = Oratia Media
 | isbn = 9780947506247
 }}</ref> The financial veto system was introduced in 1996.<ref name="mcgee"/>{{further|Politics of New Zealand}}
*{{flag|Tonga}}: The [[Constitution of Tonga|constitution]] empowers the [[List of monarchs of Tonga|King]] to withhold royal assent from bills adopted by the [[Legislative Assembly of Tonga|Legislative Assembly]].<ref>{{Cite constitution | polity = Tonga | date = 1978 | article = 41, 68 |section = 2}}</ref> In November 2011, the assembly adopted a bill that reduced the possible criminal sentences for the illicit possession of firearms, an offence for which two members of the assembly had recently been charged. Members of the opposition denounced the bill and asked the King to veto it, and he did so in December 2011.<ref>{{Cite news
  | url = https://matangitonga.to/2012/01/09/king-withholds-assent-lower-firearms-penalties
  | title = King withholds assent on lower firearms penalties
  | newspaper = Matangi Tonga
  | date = 2012-01-09
  | access-date = 2022-06-22
}}</ref>{{further|Politics of Tonga|Royal assent#Tonga}}