;
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world it be approps. Connial adore Réfue deus..
made on
to the Council. It would be impossible for the Governor to
approve
every
one of
these
personally before
they
are
omitted/ Responsibility in practice is therefore devolved
among the 18 Policy Branch Secretaries
and 59 Heads of
Government Departments acting under the directions of the
Chief
Secretary,
areas
who
develop
proposals
to
within their
of
and put them forward;
the "Clerk programme Councils" (the secretary to the Council)
the Council), who receives the
proposals as draft Executive Council memoranda, compiles the agenda and issues the memoranda to Members; and to the Chief
the on behalf agenda
of
In general the only reason for not including an item on the agenda is the pressure of business, which may
cause something of lesser importance to
of lesser importance to be held back for a
later occasion.
Secretary
Governor.
who
approves
the
من
them.
Additionally Members
time ask that a matter be placed before the Council.
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themselves
may
time from
to
Such
new concerns of
met.
the Although
Royal
which generally reflect urgent or new
requests,
the
public,
are
invariably
Instructions provide a procedure whereby the Governor may
instance of
decline to submit a question to the Council on the request
of a Member (see Note), there is no recorded
this having been used.
Note: The procedure is that the application may be recorded
in the minutes of the Council, together with the
answer
provided by the Governor.
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