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but as J.Ps
of the Board of Education, the Minister of Labour, the
Minister of Health, the Minister of Pensions, and the
Minister of Transport.
11. While Part I in the proposed new Schedule does
not seek to find local equivalents of that formidable list
it is considered desirable that it should include all
official members of the Executive Council.
12.
Part II of the Schedule to the principal Ordinance
deals with the persons required to take the oath of
allegiance and the judicial oath. The new Part II differs
from the old Part II only in the omission of the second
paragraph which required certain officials, all of whom
are official Justices of the Peace, and the refore included
in the third paragraph, to take their oaths before the
This is considered unnecessary especially as
Governor.
no corresponding official is included in the Second Part
of the Promissory Oaths Act, 1868.
13.
As all members of the Executive Council are
required under section 7 of the principal Ordinance to take the oath of allegiance and as all the officers included
in Part I of the Schedule will be members of that Council
the words "oath of allegiance and the" are not necessary
in the first line of section 5 of the principal Ordinance.
They are therefore repealed by clause 2 of the Bill.
(sd.) C. G. Alabaster.
April, 1939.
Attorney General.