Public Seal.
Executive Council.
Legislative Council. (Amended on 4.4.85)
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execution of the office of Governor and for the due and impartial administration of justice; which Oaths the said Chief Justice or Judge, or if they be unavoidably absent, the senior Member of the Executive Council then present, is hereby required to administer.
IV. The Governor shall keep and use the Public Seal of the Colony for sealing all things whatsoever that shall pass the said Public Seal.
V. There shall be an Executive Council in and for the Colony, and the said Council shall consist of such persons as We shall direct by Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet, and all such persons shall hold their places in the said Council during Our pleasure. The Governor may upon sufficient cause to him appearing suspend from the exercise of his functions in the Council any Member thereof pending the signification of Our pleasure, giving immediate notice to Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State. If the suspension is confirmed by Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State the Governor shall forthwith by an instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony revoke the appoint- ment of such Member, and thereupon his seat in the Council shall become vacant.
VI. (1) There shall be a Legislative Council in and for the Colony, and the said Council shall consist of
(a) the Governor;
(b) three ex officio members, being the persons for the time being lawfully discharging the functions of Chief Secretary, Attorney General and Financial Secretary of the Colony;
(c) not more than seven persons holding office under the Crown in the Colony as the Governor may, from time to time, appoint (who, together with the ex officio members, shall be styled “Official Members");
(d) not more than twenty-two persons as the Governor may, from time to time, appoint (who shall be styled “Appoint- ed Members"); and
(e) twenty-four elected members (who shall be styled "Elected Members") being persons who are qualified and elected as elected members in accordance with a law in that behalf in force in the Colony.
(2) Appointments to the Legislative Council shall be made by the Governor, in pursuance of any Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet or through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, by an instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony. Official Members and Appointed Members shall hold their places in the said Council during Our pleasure and, subject thereto, in accordance. with any Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet.