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App. I]
Royal Instructions.
(1967 Ed.
Provisional appointment of Members of the Executive Council.
Or whenever the seat) of any such member shall otherwise become)
Vacant
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Such provisional appointments to be immediately reported.
Governor to communicate Instructions
to Executive
Council.
Summoning of
Executive
Council. (Amended on 17.11.67.)
Presiding in Executive Council.
(Amended on 1.3.53 and 17.11.67.)
If any Official Member cease to hold office under the Crown in the Colony his seat in the Council shall thereupon become
vacant.
III. Whenever any Member, other than an ex officio Member, of the Exccutive Council of the Colony shall, by writing under his hand, resign his seat in the Council, or shall dic, or be declared by the Governor by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony to be incapable of exercising his functions as a Member of the Council, or be absent from the Colony, or shall be acting in an office the holder of which is an ex officio Member of the Council, or shall be suspended from the exercise of his functions as a Member of the Council, the Governor may, by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, provisionally appoint any (public officer to be temporarily an Official or Unofficial Member of the Council, and any person not a public officer to be tem- porarily an Unofficial Member of the Council in the place of the Member so resigning, or dying, or being suspended, or declared incapable, or being absent, or sitting as an ex officio Member.
Such person shall forthwith cease to be a Member of the Council if his appointment is disallowed by Us, or if the Member in whose place he was appointed shall be released from suspension, or, as the case may be, shall be declared by the Governor by an Instrument under the Public Seal capable of again discharging his functions in the Council, or shall return to the Colony, or shall cease to sit in the Council as an ex officio Member.
IV. The Governor shall, without delay, report to Us, for Our confirmation or disallowance, through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, every provisional appointment of any person as a Member of the said Exccutive Council. Every such person shall hold his place in the Council during Our pleasure, and the Governor may by an Instrument under the Public Seal revoke any such appointment.
V. [Revoked 1.3.55.]
VI. The Governor shall forthwith communicate these Our Instructions to the Executive Council, and likewise all such others, from time to time, as We may direct, dr as he shall find convenient for Our service to impart to them.
VII. The Executive Council shall not be summoned except by the authority of the Governor,
VIII. (1) The Governor shall, so far as is practicable, preside at meetings of the Executive Council.
(2) In the absence of the Governor there shall preside at any meeting of the Council-
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