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Chapter 6 The Executive Council
56.
At present, the Executive Council is composed
of four ex-officio members the Chief Secretary, the
British Forces, the Financial Secretary and
Commander
the Attorney General - and twelve appointed members, two
of whom are officials appointed ad personam and ten of
whom are Unofficials. The Governor presides over the
Council.
57.
Five of the Unofficial members of the Executive
Council are also currently members of the Legislative
Council. Although there is ΠΟ formal provision in the
Letters Patent Or the Royal Instructions for such dual
membership of both Councils, it is a long established
tradition that several senior (or former) members of the
Legislative Council should also be appointed as members
of the Executive Council. In this way a close link is
maintained between the two Councils.
58.
the
In order to move away from dependence on the
system of present
of the appointment of members
Executive Council by the Governor and to introduce а
representative element into the Executive Council it
it is
proposed that, by 1991, at least eight of the Unofficial
members of the Executive Council should be elected by
the Unofficial members of the Legislative Council from
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