H
a)
CONFIDENTIAL
POWERS TO BE RETAINED BY GOVERNOR.
Detail
To dissolve the Legislative Council
Authority
RI XXVIIIA
ANNEX A
UK Practice
Sovereign on advice of PM
Sovereign
(on advice of PM?)
Remarks
Should this be limited to circumstances of Council's refusal to pass law or vote funds of a significant nature? Should the
Governor be require to consult the Senior Official Member and Senior Member formally?
See also RI XXI A
b)
To appoint the date on which the session of Council begins and ends
SO 5
c)
(i)
Governor at the
SO 6
(i) Sovereign
first sitting
has right to
address the
(ii)
Council and
having done so
to suspend the
(ii) Speaker/
Lord
Chancellor
(ii) to be transferred to President (on a motion by CS?)
sitting
d)
To determine that a
SO 7 (A)
Sovereign
sitting be held
outside the normal session
CONFIDENTIAL
See II (b)