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Majesty's Government have the right to consider opposition by the official members of the Legislative Council to its settled policy as incompatible with retention of office". He expressed the opinion that official members were bound, if required to do so, to support and not to oppose by any public act a policy which may originate with the
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Governor.
Secondly, the Governor has a right to a casting,
in addition to his original, vote in the event of an equality of votes. This assures the Governor of an official majority in Legislative Council. The consequence of this is that the Governor can be held responsible to the Crown for the decisions of the Legislative Council. However, as a matter of practice
the official majority is not used.
But The powers of the Governor and the Legislative Council in enacting laws are limited in some respects by the Royal Instructions, which list certain types of bills to which the Governor may not assent, without prior instructions from the Secretary of State. These include bills relating to some civil rights; to the grant of land or money to the Governor; to provisions inconsistent with obligations imposed on the U.K. Government or the Crown; to the control of the Armed Forces to measures prejudicial to the trade and shipping of the U.K.; and to any bill to which the Royal Assent has been refused or
disallowed.
Unless otherwise provided expressly or by necessary implication a United Kingdom Act does not apply to a dependent