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any instructions

ven to the Governor

by Her Majesty through the Secretary of State as to now sucn power should be exercisev and in particular any

instructions

Reyulations.

containeu la Colonial

In my quayment, properly construed, s.15(a) makes it clear that the Ordinance does not in any way circumscribe the plenitude of the Governor's powers in Article xiv of the

Letters Patent. In other words, the Governor's powers are

to se

Druinarce nau not ween pussej the

Ordinance cannot we played in alu to render anything which

was lawful before it was enacteu,

as re arugu

if the

unlawful.

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in o far as pudyes ca

the Supreme Court and or the

nave seen that while the

District Court are concerned,

relevant rdinances stand, the Governor, uj virtue of

Article II anu what 1s said in Article IV itself, cannot

appoint こ judge who 15 not qualified in terms of the

applicable statutory provisions, ana De must

appoint.ent in the manner stipulated since there 1s no

Saving of the Governor's powers unuer Article XIV.

the

The Governor's Article XIV powers are completely

unfettered and therefore free, too, from the requirement,

express or iulieu, that le must seek. receive or neeu

advice from any source wefore ne Makes an appointment. In

By view it 15 wrong to limit the effect of s.15(a) simply to

the act of appointing (about which the rest of the Ordinance

1 S silent) ignoring all that goes with the power vested in

the Governor involving such matters as the choice of the

person to se appointed and the advice ne seexs or receives about a particular appointment. Nor do I think it right to

as if all it contained were effectively a

proviso that the Governor was not wound to act upon any

advice tendered to him under the urdinance.

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