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MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL in Mr Paul
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'mo' AMENDMENTS TO LETTERS PATENT AND ROYAL INSTRUCTIONS IN STRE
THE PROBLEM
Amendments to
2
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the Letters Patent and Royal Instructions are required in order to give effect to constitutional changes to the Legislative Council in 1991.
RECOMMENDATION AND ADVICE SOUGHT
2
It is recommended that a recommendation be made to the Secretary of State that the Letters Patent be amended
(a) to remove all Official Members, other than the three ex-officio Members, from the Legislative Council (Letters Patent VI(1) (C)) ;
(b)
to
provide for the number of Appointed Members of the Legislative Council to be reduced from 20 to 18 and for the number of Elected Members to be increased from twenty-six to thirty-nine (Letters Patent VI (1) (d) and (e));
and that the Royal Instructions be amended
(၁)
to
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delete reference to Official Members of the Legislative Council and to substitute them by reference
ex-officio Members where
appropriate;
(a)
to
(e)
(f)
(g)
to
provide for a four-year term for the Legislative Council after 1991 (Royal Instruction XIIA (1) (a) and XXVIIIA);
to reduce the provisions for provisional appointment of Official Members and Appointed Members to the latter only (Royal Instructions XIV);
to provide for a Deputy President to preside at Legislative Council meetings in the absence of the Governor from such sittings (Royal Instructions XXI(2)(a) and (b)); and
to of
provide for the appointment by the Governor а Deputy President of the Legislative Council (Royal Instructions XXI (3)).
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