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Amendment
of Section 4 of the
principal Order.
Amendment of Section
19 (1) of principal Order,
Section 21A added to
principal
Order.
The Falkland Islands (Legislative Council) (Amendment)
Order in Council 1951 Section 4
2. Section 4 of the principal Order shall have effect as if for pata graph (c) thereof there were substituted the following paragraph?
“(c) Two Nominated Official Members
3. Subsection (1) of Section 19 of the principal Order shall have effect as if the words Save as otherwise provided in this Order -inserted at the beginning of the subsection.
were
4. The following section is hereby inserted in the principal Order immediately after Section 21 thereof:
"Governor's reserved power,"
“21A. (1) If the Governor shall consider that it is ex- pedient in the interests of public order, public faith or good government (which expressions shall, without prejudice to their generality, include the responsibility of the Colony as a territory within the British Commonwealth of Nations, and all matters pertaining to the creation or abolition of any public office or to the appointment, salary or other conditions of service of any public officer) that any Bill introduced, or any motion proposed, in the Council should have effect, then, if the Council fail to pass such Bill or motion within such time and in such form as the Governor may think reasonable and expedient, the Governor, at any time that he thinks fit, may, notwithstanding any provisions of this Order or of any Standing Rules and Orders of the Council, declare that such Bill or motion shall have effect as if it had been passed or carried by the Council, either in the form in which it was so introduced or proposed or with such amendments as the Governor shall think fit that have been moved or proposed in the Council, including any committee thereof; and thereupon the said Bill or motion shall be deemed to have been so passed or carried at the time when such declaration shall have been made, and the provisions of this Order, and in particular the provisions relating to assent to Bills and disallowance of laws, shall have effect accordingly.
(2) The Governor shall forthwith report to a Secretary of State every case in which he shall make any such declara- tion and the reasons therefor.
(3) If any Member of the Council objects to any declara- tion made under this Section, he may, within seven days of the making thereof, submit to the Governor a statement in writing of his reasons for so objecting, and a copy of such statement shall, if furnished by such Member, be for- warded by the Governor as soon as practicable to a Secre- tary of State.
(4) Any such declaration relating to a motion may be revoked by a Secretary of State and the Governor shall cause notice of such revocation to be published in the Gazette; and from the date of such publication any motion that shall have been deemed to have been carried by virtue of the declaration revoked shall cease to have effect; and the provisions of subsection (2) of Section 38 of the Inter- pretation Act, 1889(d), shall apply to such revocation as they apply to the repeal of an Act of Parliament,'
(d) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.
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