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He has power to make a provisional appointment, which he has to
refer to Her Majesty and which is subject to disallowance by Her.
It seems to me to follow that the word "temporarily" should be
omitted from the form used in the case of the provisionai
appointments of Members of the Legislative Council.
(c) I, too, agree with Mr. Smith as regards the procedure to be
followed in relation to those provisional appointments.
I would,
however, suggest that in the form he proposes for signification of
approval of a provisional appointment that the word "provisional"
should be inserted between the words "in respect of the" and
"appointment".
(a) In view of what I have stated in the last sentence of sub-
paragraph (b) above, the question of how to deal with "temporary"
appointments no longer arises.
3. In paragraph 5 of your minute of 7th May you have referred
to provisional appointments to the Executive Council. Such
appointments appear to be governed by clauses III and IV of the
Royal Instructions of 1917 which iffer from the present clause
XIV, in that clause III, like the former clauses XIV and XV,
confers upon the Governor power to appoint provisionally a person
to be temporarily an Official or Unofficial Member of the Council
in the place of a Member, other than an ex officio Member,
whose
scat on the Council is vacant, and clause IV, like the former
clauses XIV and XV, requires the Governor to refer to Her Majesty
for Her "confirmation or disallowance" every provisional appointment
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of any person as a Member of the Executive Council.
deal only with Mombership of the Legislative Council. I do not
know what is the form in use in relation to appointments to the
Executive Council; but in view of the wording of clause IV of the
Instructions it would not be incorrect to signify Her Majesty's
"confirmation" of provisional appointments to the Executive
Council: paragraph 6 of my minute of 25th April 1968 applies only
to provisional appointments to the Legislative Council.
(Francis Herchenroder)
8. 5. 1968