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App. I]
Royal Instructions.
[1967 Ed.
Resignation of Members.
(Amended on 30.4.38.)
Council may
transact business notwithstanding
vacancies. Quorum.
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Presiding in Legislative Council. (Amended on 1.3.55 and 6.1.66.)
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Questions to be decided by a majority,
Governor to have original and casting vote,
Rules and Orders to be made.
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is vacant, and immediately on the publication of such declaration he shall cease to be a Member of the Council.
XVIII. Any Member of the Legislative Council, other than an ex officio Member, may resign his seat in the Council by writing under his hand, but no such resignation shall take effect until it be accepted by the Governor in writing, or by Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State.
XIX. The Legislative Council shall not be disqualified from the transaction of business on account of any vacancies among the
· Members thereof; but the said Council shall not be competent to act in any case unless (including the Governor or the Member presiding) there be present at and throughout the meetings of the Council five-Members at the least.
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XX. [Revoked 1.3.55.]
XXI. (1) The Governor shall, so far as is practicable, preside at meetings of the Legislative Council.
(2) In the absence of the Governor there shall preside at any meeting of the Council-
(a) such Member of the Council as the Governor may appoint;
or
(b) in the absence of a Member so appointed, the senior
Official Member present.
(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (2) of this clause the Official Members of the Council shall have seniority as follows-
(i) first, the persons discharging the functions of the offices specified in clause XIII of these Instructions, in the order in which those offices are mentioned therein;
(ii) second, the other Member: eccording to the priority of
their respective appointments to the Council:
Provided that Members appointed by the same Instrument shall have seniority among themselves according to the order in which they are named therein.
XXII. All questions proposed for debate in the Legislative Council shall be decided by the majority of votes, and the Governor or the Member presiding shall have an original vote in common with the other Members of the Coune'), and also a casting vote, if upon any question the votes shall be equal,
XXIII. The Legislative Council may from time to time make standing rules and orders for the regulation of their own proceedings, provided such rules and orders be not repugnant to Our said recited
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