(Amended on 19 February #HISTYR 1993) (Amended on 1 March; 17 November #HSITYR 1967)
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IX.
(1) No business except that of adjournment shall be transacted in the Executive Council if objection is taken by any Member present that there are less than four Members present besides the Governor or the Member presiding.
(2) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this clause, the Executive Council shall not be disqualified for the transaction of business by reason of any vacancy in the membership of the Council, and any proceedings in the Council shall be valid
notwithstanding that some person who was not entitled to do so took part in those proceedings.
(3) The Governor or the Member presiding,
when in his opinion the business before the Executive Council makes it desirable, may summon any person to a meeting of the Council, notwithstanding that that person is not a Member of the Council.
(Amended on 17 November #HISTYR 1967)
X.
In the execution of the powers and authorities granted to the Governor by our said recited Letters Patent, he shall in all cases consult with the Executive Council, excepting only in cases relating to the appointment, disciplinary control or removal from office of a public officer or in cases which may be of such a nature that, in his judgment, Our service would sustain material prejudice by consulting the Council thereupon, or when the matters to be decided shall be too unimportant to require their advice, or too urgent to admit of their advice being given by the time within which it may be necessary for him to act in respect of any such matters. In all such urgent cases he shall, at the earliest practicable period, communicate to the Executive Council the measures which he may so have adopted, with the reasons therefor.
(Amended on 28 February #HISTYR 1969)
Proceedings in Executive Council
Governor to consult Executive Council
XI.
The Governor shall alone be entitled to submit questions to the Executive Council for their advice or decision; but if the Governor decline to submit any question to the Council when requested in writing by any Member so to do, it shall be competent to such Member to require that there be recorded upon the Minutes his written application, together with the answer returned by the Governor to the same.
Governor alone entitled to submit questions