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Memorial, he states that direction for the insertion of the regulation recommended by the Acting Attorney General in the Police regulations made under # 8XIII of Ordinance N. 9 of 1862 cannot duly be carried out," because, as he explains, it is in # # his "1 opinion ultra vires, and although it is competent to me to give such order as an instruction. "I cannot make it a regulation?
8. The question raised has been discussed in Executive Council several times, and a clear opinion has been expressed both by Mr. O'Malley and M. Ackroyd, now as well as by - acting for the former, that it is the duty of the Head of the Police to obey orders and instructions, and not to enquire whether such orders are in his view legal or not. As it must necessarily interfere very much with the efficiency of the Force, if these erroneous views of his own duties and responsibilities are entertained. Executive