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Connial advus kepure devs._ is them.
made on
to the Council. It would be impossible for the Governor to
approve every one of
these personally before
they are
submitted/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, who develop proposals within their
and put
the "Clerk programme areas
of them forward; to
Councils" (the secretary to 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 agenda
on behalf of the
In general the only reason for not including an
Secretary who
Governor.
item on
approves
the agenda is the pressure of business, which may
cause something of lesser importance to be held back for a
later occasion.
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Additionally Members
themselves may
from time to
Such
concerns of
time ask that a matter be placed before the Council.
requests, which generally reflect urgent or
new
the public, are invariably met. Although the Royal
Instructions provide a procedure
a procedure whereby the Governor may
decline to submit a question to the Council on the request
of a Member (see Note), there is по recorded instance of
this having been used.
Note: The procedure is that the application may be recorded
in the minutes
of the Council,
provided by the Governor.
together with the
answer
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