Oaths to be taken by Governor.
Imperial Act. 31 & 32 Vict. c. 72
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Executive Council.
Legislative Council.
(Amended on
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Executive Council of the Colony as can conveniently attend; which being done he shall then and there take before them the Oath of Allegiance, in the form provided by an Act passed in the Session holden in the Thirty-first and Thirty-second years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to amend the Law relating to Promissory Oaths"; and likewise the usual Oath for the due 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 Excutive 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 appointment 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 Governer;
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(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) Revoked 12.10.90.
as the Governor
(d) not more than eighteen persons
may, from time to time, appoint (who shall be styled "Appointed Members"); and
(e) thirty-nine 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.
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